Parenting and children - individual

Question 1

Situation ethics?

Answer 1

agape - demonstrate this towards children and have children in loving environment

Question 2

St Thomas Aquinas?

Answer 2

natural law - God’s first command was to ‘go forth and multiply’

Question 3

St Augustine?

Answer 3

sex = a sin unless for the purpose of reproduction

Question 4

Bengston - 40-year study - the Longitudinal Study of the Generations - findings morality? why?

Answer 4

Atheist families - ‘the vast majority appeared to live goal-filled lives characterised by moral direction and sense of life having purpose.’

Question 5

Zuckerman?

Answer 5

Golden Rule (treat others as you would want to be treated) = ‘an ancient, universal and ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.’

Question 6

What did the Federal Bureau of Prison Statistics find?

Answer 6

late 1990s , atheists comprised less than 0.5% of those in prison

Question 7

Bocchiaro - study into destructive obedience?

Answer 7

conducted a study in which participants were required to carry out an unethical request from a seemingly legitimate authority figure
Found that those who had faith (confident belief in a transcendent reality) = slightly more likely to whistle-blow than those who did not have faith
whistleblowing is a more difficult moral path to take than obeying or disobeying as it may require direct confrontation with the unjust authority figure