By Michael Farnworth The previous issue’s Family Forum explored parenting from the perspective of moral theorist Lawrence Kohlberg. His research argues that we initially base our motivations to be moral on fear that something bad with happen to us if we don’t obey the rules, but then we move on to behaving in order to …
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Family Forum: What Is Really Motivating Us?
By Michael Farnworth It seems to me that thoughtful Mormon parents should be concerned about moral agency as described in Doctrine & Covenants 101:78— That every man may act in doctrine and principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable …