Ethical Dilemmas Of Children

People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.

In this case study, there were a few incidents of violations of ethics. In 1998, Callahan recommends that researchers should follow the three ethical issues: Autonomy, beneficence, and human justice. Autonomy is the first ethical principle that a researcher should respect the participate and make sure that informed consent has been given. The participates of this study was not aware the risk or what the study was about and actually could not give consent legally because they were minors. Johnson and Tudor did not give full disclosure of this research to the minors, teachers, or matrons at the orphanage. Beneficence is the second ethical principle; the researcher should maximize

According to the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007, the assessment of risk-benefit ratio and consent from the participants are two important concerns of conducting any human research. These two issues help the participants to make an informed decision so that they can understand and outweigh the significance and possibilities of harm independently (Emanuel, 2008). Being a researcher, I would follow the National Statement on Ethical Conduct In Human Research 2007, hence, I must assess the magnitude of possible harm (physical, psychological, social, economic or legal) for the participants and handling the risk by identifying resources and monitoring them, thus, reducing the risk of their occurrence. (National statement on ethical conduct in human research,

A review of the proposed participants of the study will ensure high-risk groups (if any) will be considered as per the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (‘National Statement’; NHMRC, 2007). While some of these high-risk

Part I: The legal considerations would be to inform the participants that there would be no harm or risk to the participants. Since the participants are adolescents the researcher needs to obtain a secure informed consent from the parent or guardian before they participate. The researcher’s ethics are to provide full disclosure to the participants. The researcher should be open and honest to the participants regarding the study. The researcher’s ethical consideration is to protect the privacy of each participant. This can be accomplished by ensuring confidentiality and by having the data stored securely. Also, the researcher should

Some researchers may invite parents participate in the research. However, in this case, sometimes children’s response may not be their real thoughts because they may be affected by adults. Researchers may face dilemmas whether to communicate children’s responses to their parents if the child participants told them not to. As a result, researchers need to maintain a shared power and build trust with parents and children. This can ensure both parents and children’s rights to express their willingness, their considerations, and their preferences.

This paper reflects on the question of if a child of 10 years or less can act morally wrong or commit morally virtuous acts. Children in today's society are nearly forced to be older than their actual age and thus must increase in maturity and morally comparatively to children of as little as three decades ago. The argument of agreement will be proved by examples of needing a two person income family with a comparative of a child in a single parent versus both parent environment. Although it is a "grievous moral wrong to harm" (Waller, 2008, p. 32) children under the age of ten, the evil in society today will be proved with examples to show children who are harmed are able to commit not only morally virtuous acts but can and

The researchers will submit the research proposal to Douglas College Research Ethics Board for approval. The completed application is attached (see Appendix 1). Although the research involves the medical records of young children deemed to be a vulnerable population, the nature of the research does not imply any contacts with the subjects. Therefore, no consent is required from parents or legal guardians. Since the research does not imply any direct or indirect contacts with the subjects, there are no reasonably foreseeable risks or discomforts pertaining to the research. The researchers will obtain the permission from the provincial Ministry of Health to have an access to the medical records of children

Over recent years there has been an increasing approval in Britain and elsewhere that children and young people should be involved more in decision making which may affect them. Recent years have seen an increase on the focus of children 's rights which include ways of getting young people and children involved more directly in decision making that impact their lives. In research terms, this has been mirrored in a linguistic shift from talking about 'research on ' to research with ' and now, increasingly, to 'research by ' children and young people (Kimmel, A.J., 1988).

Nurses often encounter ethical and social dilemmas that affect individuals and families for whom they provide care. These situations may present more commonly when caring for the pediatric population. Nurses must know how to approach these issues in a knowledgeable and systematic way. Ethics involves defining the best course of action in a presented situation. Ethical reasoning is the analysis of what is morally right and reasonable. Bioethics is the application of ethics to health care. Ethical behavior for nurses is discussed in codes such as the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code for Nurses. Ethical issues have become more complex as technology has created more options in health care. Controversy arises because an obvious choice of what is right or wrong does not exist and because moral support is possible for more than one course of action. Ethical dilemmas are among the most difficult situations in nursing practice. To find solutions, healthcare providers must apply ethical theories and principles and determine the burdens and benefits of any course of action (Rae, 2009).

“Where there is a will… there is a war” [1]. Mary Magaka’s husband, Bezerk Magaka disinherited his wife, who had substantially contributed to his property and was financially dependent on him [2]. She was devastated because inheritance was the only means of financial support for her. As shocking as it may seem, this situation is not uncommon. Numerous people abandon their spouses and children by not giving them their share in the property. When a person marries and has children, ethically it is the duty of the person to take their responsibility. This responsibility continues even after death with transferring of the ownership of the property to the children or spouse. Hence, it should be illegal to disinherit your spouse or children, and courts should be able to change the terms of a will that they decide are unfair.

When performing research on children we need a basic understanding of how the child communicates and thinks, this can relate to a number of things such as memory, conceptual development and language development (Mutch, 2013). Research with children needs to be sensitive to their stages of development, ethically justified, allow modifications of research methods, environment, and tools (Mutch, 2013). Educational researchers have a duty in relation to the principle of harmful effects and unintended consequences, to ensure unnecessary harm and anxiety is avoided (New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2010). The principle of confidentiality needs to be obliged, this is an important aspect in regards to educational research, any confidential information leaked may result in breach of the law (New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 2010). When doing educational research, research participants need to be advised of the principle informed consent, this involves informing parents of the purpose, conduct, what is involved and allowing parents to withdraw their child at any time (Mutch, 2013).

Should children that commit adult crime be prosecuted? While some people believe children should be given second chances since they are young, others think children should be punished the same way adults are. Children should not be given advantages simply because they are young as they should know the difference between right and wrong. Since this is a frequently discussed idea in society, many authors deal with it in literature. This is the case in Lord of the Flies because crimes are committed by young children.

I agree with the decision that IBR made with regards to waiving the signed consent form since minors cannot give consent (Royse et al., 2016). One of the reasons why I agree with the decision that IBR made is because the risk is minimal. Another decision that the IBR could have made that would not have been appropriate for this research was requiring the written consent for from parents before the children participates in the research due to many parents failing to respond back about the consent form, especially for those children living in a single parent household. Meaning many minority children would be under represented in the study (Royse et al., 2016). In addition, the researcher should be sensitive to the culture of the children (Royse

There are many times in a setting where you work with other adults that something will come into play that provides a conflict that could potentially create a clash of ideas. Sometimes something that one person may think is the correct way to go about things, could be wrong in the eyes of the other adult. When this conflict comes into play the two people that come into problems with one another need to make adult decisions to come to an agreement on the conflict that has arisen. Conflict management is about calming discussing the situation in order to brainstorm on the problem (Watson, 2012). My paper discusses a current dilemma, ethical ideal/principles that relate to the dilemma, as well as future approach.