Moral Codes at home

If there is a logical and consistent moral code at home, even if it is imperfectly implemented, the youth is likely to accept and adopt it.

• When a family discusses moral issues and recognizes the difficulty of living up to some of the standards. For example when a TV show shows disregard and stereotypes for certain classes of people (gender, social strata, etc) and the family points out the wrongness of this disregard or stereotyping, the youth will learn to recognize and oppose such attitudes
• When rational boundaries are given for a moral standard, such as “the government sets age limits for alcohol and we observe these” and/or “research shows that alcohol has serious long term effect on youth and children the younger the youth are when they start drinking the more damage is done,” [This is a true fact] reason will convince the youth.
• If exceptions are discussed and agreed to or rejected, this makes the exceptions rational and acceptable to the youth.