Personal Values and Ethical Standards

Personal Values and Ethical Standards In order to start this paper, I had to make sure I knew the differences between values, moral and ethics. It’s believed that values are what we learn from childhood from parents and surrounding influences of adults involved in the child’s life. Morals are the beliefs developed from that value system and how one should behave in any given situation. Ethics on the other hand is how someone actually behaves in the situation that may test ones morals and values, wow are you confused yet? Values are established by childhood upbringing and help mold them into citizens contributing to society. Those environments include home, school, church, neighbors, cultural backgrounds and social get together’s or parties. Most of these beliefs and patterns of behavior are established through the unconscious observations and experiences of childhood in those environments. Her parents were not perfect by most standards but they demonstrated honesty, integrity, hard work standards, willingness to address conflict, even in difficult situations. Her dad was a glassier, then when injury fell on him he became a truck driver, and then again injury struck but this time he became unable to work and be the breadwinner. Her mother was a stay at home mom until all three children were able to attend school. At which point she went back to college to become a nurse’s assistant and to help supplement income by working at a department store. Showing her diversity and rough manageable times at a young age, building a resilient child and adolescent. Those parents were an impressive team for an adolescent with growing pains, throughout the diverse situations that arose and the housing situations that resulted in the end. They developed their home relationships into strong encouragement for her and pushing her to challenge and explore her world. Those two parents taught her that honesty was the best policy, even when the details may not be virtuous. They

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