Relationship Ethics
Relationship ethics are concerned with what is the best way to relate to friends, family, partners, and other social relations. Everyone has an important stake in relationship ethics. This area can overlap to include issues with religion, manners, love, sex, and personal ethics. Many magazines (such as Oprah's on-line magazine), newspapers, and television shows use relationship ethics as a source for their material - areas of fidelity, rudeness, poor social skills, and destructive behavior need consideration.
Although frequently dramatized and sensationalized, these issues are actually relationship ethics in disguise.
Quite often, relationship ethics fall into the realm of questions of selfishness, obligation, and personal boundary setting.
Your spouse has become increasingly unhappy over the last several months, and is consistently drinking.
What is the best way to handle this?
Your 14 year old daughter wants to date a 17 year old.
What restrictions, if any, do you place on her as a parent?
Would your decision change if it was your son instead?
While driving on the freeway, a multi-car accident occurs in front of you. You swerve out of the way and manage to stop on the shoulder. You notice the other vehicles are damaged and have air bags deployed. What do you do?