Week 1 ethics paper I would like to discuss Choice 2 for this ethics paper. A married couple who were both addicted to drugs, are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, the natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them, against her will. Does ethics support the law in this case? I’m going to address this dilemma in two ways, Care-based and Ends-based. In my opinion, Care-based ethics supported the law in this case, but only in the favor of the biological parents. I say this because, as an extremely empathetic person, I have crossed paths with people who have had children taken away from them because of drug problems. They weren’t fortunate enough to get their children back, but as a parent I can imagine the sadness, guilt and helplessness these parents had to go through. Being addicted to drugs is not like a light switch, you can’t just stop on a flip of a switch. It takes hard work, belief in one’s self, money, support and perseverance, and even then an addict runs the risk of relapsing. After the parents lost their infant daughter who I believed they loved with all their hearts, the situation gave them the courage, strength and motivation to clean up their lives in hopes of getting their daughter back. For all we know it probably took them many years to get cured and many other years on top of that to go through court proceedings to get their daughter back. However, also on a Care-based point of view, the Judge’s decision was unethical in regards to the foster parents and the 9 year old child because they took this child into their home,