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Ethics and Family
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In this society, values and ethics are traditionally taught in the home. Most parents with their daily tasks found the time to instill the values that were taught to them by their parents. Nevertheless, it was the father's responsibility to reinforce the ethical rules and values learned in the home. However, religion plays an important role in teaching values and reinforcing ethics among their parishioners and the children with each sermon that took place on Sunday. Many young people who attend church and those who strongly believe in the values that are taught by the church in some cases fell prey to those values and some families become victims. This paper will present such a family situation by revealing the facts of the family, a hypothesis of religious beliefs, and the results to adhering to certain values dictated by religious beliefs. Respectfully, this paper is not a slanderous attack on religion, but only to show how certain individuals of a family are more or less trapped in unethical situations due to their religious beliefs. The names have been change in order to preserve the privacy of the family. First, by presenting the facts of the family mentioned in the above statement it serves only to authenticate the hypothesis raised and it offers a different outlook on how religion in its purest intent can play a role in misdirecting certain individuals decision making. It began, in the small town of Greenville, North Carolina, Jeffrey and Donna were married in a Baptist church that they had attended for most of their lives. Their parents are devoted Baptist and they were in church regularly. In this church, the pastor gave sermons on the values of marriage approximately half of the time while in the church existed. Nevertheless, the two were married and there were many instructions on having a good marriage given by the pastor and other parishioners. Jeffrey and Donna set out to begin their lives in matrimony and a two years into the marriage they have a little Ethics 2 girl named Terry. Two years had past and they had another child, a boy and they named him Trey. Now they are family of four who still attend church regularly. However, nine years has past, Terry is now seven years old and Trey is five and they seem to be healthy and very loved children. Donna began to notice however, that her husband began to change; especially in the manor of sexual affection towards her. She suspected that her husband was cheating on her with another woman, but ascertained that he spent too much time with Terry and Trey to have the time to see another woman. So, she disregarded the suspicion and she moved on. Until on morning Terry arose from her bedroom and told her mother that she was having severe stomach pains. Thinking it was a bad tummy ache; Donna delayed in taking her to the doctor. The pain got worse and Donna was forced to take Terry to the doctor. The diagnosis was horrifying to Donna once the doctor examined Terry. She has Chlamydia, he reported to the mother. The doctor needed to tell Donna that this was a sexually transmitted disease; primarily someone who is infected by the bacteria transmits it. Nevertheless, when Terry was asked who had touched her in a sexual way she replied "my daddy". She explained that it happened over a period of three to four months and it was very late at night when he would sneak into her room unnoticed by Donna. Jeffrey was arrested, and sentenced to four years in prison. Moreover, Donna became the sole provider for the family since Jeffrey was no longer part of the family. She would spent many hours a day working to support the children and utilize as much of her family members as she could, babysitting. One could almost witness the despair on her face from being thrust in this situation. It seemed was Ethics 3 though there was no one else who was willing to help her financially, so she did what ever she could under the circumstances. Three years has past and Jeffrey was out of prison on good behavior.
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