It is the responsibility of adults in our society to intervene when children are being abused in any way. Be it physical, mental or sexual. If parents are not doing their job others should take over the responsibility.
There is an ethical concern regarding poor-quality care; researchers should be obligated to intervene, but that would obviously hinder the results of the study. My concern is that facilities which do not necessarily meet the requirements for good-quality care are often able to hide it when parents or inspectors visit. Who knows whether the care that researchers observe is always the same care that the children receive?
There is an ethical concern regarding poor-quality care; researchers should be obligated to intervene, but that would obviously hinder the results of the study. My concern is that facilities which do not necessarily meet the requirements for good-quality care are often able to hide it when parents or inspectors visit. Who knows whether the care that researchers observe is always the same care that the children receive?
Informed consent must be given by the parent or guardian of the child, in order for the study to have met ethical guidelines.
The informed consent would have to come from the parents of the child. The researchers would have an ethical responsibility to intervene if poor quality care was noticed. However, poor quality would have to be defined, and it would also have to be decided what type of intervention would occur. Would the researchers go to the parents and let them make the final judgement, or would they go directly to authorities? How much authority would the researchers have? And would they be required to go to the authorities if the parents found the conditions to be satisfactory?
It would be un-ethical for the reaserchers to leave a child in an enviroment that was giving poor quality of care. It most likely would not effect the results considerably as the sample size was fairly large and the subjects well fair should always be above getting the results needed. It is the child and the child's parents that give consent for the study when the child is 8. The child does not have to participate regadless if the parents having given their consent.
It is the researchers ethical responsiblility to intervene if the children in the study are not recieving appropriate care. This may effect the results as most children are not part of a study following them for the first years of their life. The instance of abuse against these children in the study is likely lower than the general population. Parents or guardians most give informed consent for their eight year olds to paricipate in the study.
Yes there are ethical concerns regarding the quality of care. Yes, they have the right to intervene if subjects are being mistreated in anyway. (it would be unethical not to) But then again, we must have a standard to go by of what is 'mistreated?-being scolded?-spanked? Everyone has different opinions on the subject. Brandi had a very good point, that places due have a way of putting their 'best face on' in the eyes on an inspection which could not only affect the results of the experiment, but could also hide the possible mistreating of subjects.
In the study, the day cares, the parents, and the child must give consent. I think the researchers should intervene if the child is experiencing poor quality home care or day care. This is an ethical dilemma that compromises the anonymity of the participants, however, the welfare of the child is of more importance.(It would be important to define what poor quality care is though.)
Yes the researchers are obilgated to report the daycare because it would be unethical if they did not.Not reporting the poor quality daycare is endangering the children welfare.
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