A child grows through a set of developmental components and they all correlate to each other pretty well. Like if one wants to study child development he/ she does not need to go through and ascertain all the parameters of child growth to determine whether the child is growing normally or not? Moral development is a big chunk and if this is studied in detail it can give a pretty good idea of a childs mental, physical, social, and psychological growth and moral development is a well-known and important one of those. It is a set of appropriate attitudes and behaviors to distinguish wrong from right and act appropriately towards society following social and cultural norms. To discuss this concept I have taken help from an article that is a very good guide to study this parameter. In this article (Laurence 1033-1048) moral development/moral reasoning which is an important aspect of cognit
ive development of children has been studied very thoroughly with evidence-based explanations from the work of many psychologists based on the theories designed for studying moral development in children. Moral development is a process of development and it continues the whole life it is not fixed learning that would not change same as all the other components of growth. The ability of moral reasoning can even present one-eighty angle differently at different occasions depending on a sudden shift in the living circumstances of a living being. To ascertain who can help a child grow morally better is primarily the age of the child, then the parents, and then comes the society. There are different views about this development like Freud claims that the quality of the relationship the child has with his/her parent/s greatly affects the way the child develops morally (Yahoo answers, 2008).