Ethics Three Approaches to Ethics the Family Essay

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Ethics

Three Approaches to Ethics

The family life education is a special type of education that is use to strengthen relationship between the family members and encourage positive family development (Duncan and Goddard, 2011). This type of education includes a wide range of topics which can be from married life to parenting skill development. The family life educators face many ethical issues when providing education. The three different ethical approaches mentioned in booklet Tools for Ethical Thinking and Practice in Family Life Education include: The relational ethics approach, the principles approach to ethics and lens of virtues ethics.

In my opinion the most important ethical approach for the child and family life specialists is "virtue ethics." According to this approach of ethics, we should strive to achieve the ideals like excellence and dedication to common good which play a critical role in the development of our humanity (Velasquez et al., 1998).

Virtues can be defined as the traits, dispositions or attitudes that enable us to be what we are and to behave in ways that develop this potential.

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Therefore this is the most important ethical approach from the three approached mentioned in the booklet. Virtues ethics helps us in following the ideals that we have adopted an. Examples of virtues include self-control, generosity, honesty, courage, fairness, integrity and all other examples of virtues. In simple, as defined in the booklet Virtues are "dispositions to do the right thing for the right reason."

Another reason which makes this approach more necessary than other approach the second level of virtues which are very required for the ethical in giving the family and parent education in the current social context. These include caring, prudence/practical wisdom and hope/optimism. Virtues are actually developed by the individuals through learning and practice, therefore it is very important for the special life educators to….....

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