Is lying to children moral?
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Halliburton Shill
ANSWERS: 10
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Define moral and I'll try to answer you.
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It only depends on what you lie about of course. You aren't going to tell your kids at a young age that you and their dad conceived them in a grocery store parking lot lol. That was just an example by the way...
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Not sure why lying is different to an adult or child. If so then is it differnt to lie to a person that is 23 or 87, 16 or 53? To me the question which would take volumes to address is the why and what damage or good comes from a mistruth, fib, or lie. I understand that there are some that claim they never, ever, lie - I have serious doubts. This like many things is a question of degrees; which no can define for you.
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A S Neill once responded to a parent who asked why his child lied so much. His response was "Probably in imitation of his parents." A S Neill, an educator and adovate of personal freedom for children is described in Wikipedia on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Neill
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If you are teaching your children well lying to them would undermine just that. If you don't expect your child/children lie to you, then don't lie to them. Some will argue that "moral" is perceptual or psychological rather than tangible or practical in nature or effect. That reasoning seems to suggest that lying is not wrong or really not so bad. But that's not what we teach our children--do we? Nor is that an argument that would fly in a court-room as some sound defense--would it? Lying to your children, in my opinion, is rather "immoral".
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It depends. If you lie to protect your children from harm or from an adverse affect upon them and the person they are, then that's the moral thing to do. You, as a parent, have a responsibility to raise an acceptable member of society.
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Yes, you have to shelter them for a little while. Soon enough they will find out how corrupt the world really is.
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It's circumstantial!Many factors decide on what to be done...
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Well, in the grand scheme of it all...lying in general is not moral. However, sometimes you have to lie to small children to protect them.
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...does "willfully misleading"--count as "lying?" Example: I never told my children that there WAS a Santa Claus, however, I WOULD say "Santa can't come by unless your asleep!" Truth or lie--YOU decide!!!
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