In my opinion, the way they said it is just different cultures of childrearing are the purified word of child abuse, and they should stop what they are doing on their child although it is cultural differences between us and them.
One of the ethical area that related to the childrearing issue is cultural relativism. Since childrearing issue became a problem because of the cultural clash, cultural relativism is one way to know the problem closely. In The Fundamentals of Ethics 3rd Edition by Shafer-Landau, the author defines the cultural relativism as "the correct moral standards are relative to cultures or societies; ethical subjectivism claims that the correct moral standards are those endorsed by each individual. The difference amounts to whether society, or each person, has the final say about what is right and wrong… It says that an act is morally acceptable just because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and immoral just because it is forbidden by those ideals." (293) Basically, cultural relativism means the whole society is the standard of whether something is right or wrong. Based on the cultural relativism, the childrearing that our society thinks it is …show more content…
It might be a hard task for teachers to determine whether their childrearing is abuse or not. Also, at the same time, it is hard for the family who has their own childrearing because it is due to their cultural relativism. There is a famous idiom started from the Rome, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," which means you should follow the rule in that country although it is not your culture. There are lots of immigrants in the United States, but most of them did not make any troubles with American society because they are following the rule in the America and adapting their culture to American style. Same thing should happen with childrearing, people should forbid the discipline and folk medicine practices that violate the rule in the society, and preserve and adjust what they have. Also, cultural relativism said right or wrong depends on society 's standard. As people move away from their country, it does not necessary for them to follow the standard that created by their culture. They are living in the different country, and it means it is their chance to change their culture in the proper way. They need to discard the old immoral culture and revise in the newer version like a