Set Free To Choose Right: Equipping Today's Kids To Make Right Moral Choices for Life

With more than five decades working with youth and nearly 150 books translated into as many languages, Christian ministry leader McDowell (More than a Carpenter) believes that children today are facing a quagmire of difficult choices and that to empower them to recognize the difference between right and wrong we need to address three key areas: culture, child development, and parental methodology. In a survey conducted for the author's earlier book Right from Wrong, 71 percent of children understood moral truth to be subjective and individually determined. Developmentally, McDowell asserts teenagers are ill-equipped to make sound and rational choices since the prefrontal cortex is not fully formed until a person reaches their twenties. Modeling is the answer, says McDowell, who provides four steps for helping a child through the decision-making process.