Court Custody

Court custody battles between biological parents can become very drawn-out and emotionally challenging to the court system, parents and the children. Judges are typically forced to make impossible decisions as to which parent will provide the best life for the children. With these as well as other complexities of life taken into account making decision of custody when the parties involved may not be the biological parents increases the emotional stress for the parent whether biological or not and the child or children involved.

As this is a very difficult decision the solution is clear and concise. When looking at the ethics involved they do indeed support the decision rendered by the judge. The rules of the law are clear; custody of the child was given to the foster parents on a temporary basis. The court system never took all parenting rights from the biological parents in a manner where the foster parents were able to legally adopt the child. The care of the child was taken under serve scrutiny by the judge as the child's biological parents proved that they were rehabilitated and demonstrated the sincere desire to raise their child along with the ability to provide a safe and prosperous life style. The judge was faced to weigh the damage done to the child by removing her from her foster parents and the damage the child may face in her future upon realizing her foster parents aren't her biological parents.

Both the rules based and care based primary schools of ethics share familiarities as well as overall differences in the way rules are applied to the topic dilemma. Rule and care based schools of ethics are similar in that they are based on providing ethical decisions based on what's right in society. Both rules look at what are needed to ensure that all parties involved are represented fairly. The differences in rule based and care based schools of ethics are evident in their decisions are based on two different ways of looking at this situation. The rule based looks at what the law has done in previous situation. The care based rule uses a foundation of what's best for the child to determine the best solution.

I feel these two dilemmas are essential for determining what is fair and just in our society. Deciding which rule should be used is essential and as an added method of security using multiple rules can help to double check solutions to ensure accuracy. Real life situations are typically filled with emotion and uncertainty. These primary schools of ethics may not remove the emotion but they will lower the amount of uncertainty and hopefully provide a piece of mind to the person rendering the decision as well as the parties involved.

Our text book states that Aristotle rejected the notion that the good exists independent of daily experience and human personality. In his view, moral principles exist in the daily activities of human life and can be discovered by examining