Moral Development
You may think that at a certain age a person should be at a certain maturity level, but the fact is that people develop their moral standings at different ages and times in their life. Moral development is the adaptation to the moral world in which we live. Adolescents develop a conscious identity when they are able to think and reason about abstract ideas. They have reached the formal operational stage which is when they use hypothetical thinking. You could also say that moral values are learned (Coon, 2003).…
