Family Ethics: East vs West ??????????

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Family Ethics East vs West ??????????

• Chi-Chun Chin, RN, PhD
• Associate Professor, College of Nursing
• Kaohsiung Medical University
• Dec. 2, 2005

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What Makes Difference?

• Evaluative statements
• Judgments of value, rights, duties,
• responsibilities
• Moral and non-moral evaluations
• Who ought to decide
• What kinds of acts?
• What ought be done?

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Purpose of Marriage

• Traditional East
• Man
• To continue the family line by producing a male
  heir
• Man power
• Woman
• Financial support
• Belonging

• Modern West
• Love
• Emotional support
• Sexuality

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Norm of Family

• Traditional East
• Harmony
• Obey to senior generation or man
• The importance of child is more than wife
• Child is no autonomy

• Modern West
• Respect
• Autonomy
• Expression

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Issues of Family Ethics

• Family demands or individual needs
• Childs autonomy and right
• Lying to protect the patient
• Pregnant with a genetic problem
• When the fetus is the wrong sex
• Who makes the decision