Moral development

Lawrence Kohlberg 's theory of morality development most accurately portrays the way humans chose their morality . Carol Gilligan 's theory that girls develop differently because of the emphasis put on a woman 's role in caring for others is sound , but oversimplifies . And Jean Piaget 's theory may accurately describe the cognitive process of differentiating between the hard and fast societal rules and the ones that can be bent or broken , but she never accounts for the self and self-needs in her theory (Feldman , 2006 . The surprising thing is that all three

theories assume that society is the primary teacher of morality to children . Society can include family members and friends , so it can accurately reflect the familial role in morality . Only Kohlberg comes close to explaining people who choose to stray from societal norms . Kohlberg 's theory accounts for the concept of to thine ownself be true , something of the other theories do (Feldman , 2006 Kohlberg 's example of stealing the medicine to save one 's wife is the only time a moral dilemma is addressed in the three theories . If one of the other theories made sense , they would be able to explain why people stray from society 's morality . Kohlberg is the only one of the theories that makes sense

Reference

Feldman , R . S (2006 . Development Across the Life Span . Upper Saddle River , NJ : Pearson...