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Most children know what is right and wrong, dogs don't,
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Got ya!
This is entirely disputable, children learn things through operant conditioning and vicarious reinforcement. Parents have the task of socialising their children to know the difference between right and wrong but a large majority do not. If a child is never taught simple ethical rules of humanity you cannot expect said child to abide by them.
My theory is that how a child behaves is majorly due to influences in the pre-school phase of their moral development, if a child is given a healthy, nurturing and stimulating environ then that should give them a good system of morals and values to use and abide to until they are old enough to formulate their own.
Many children, especially those living in council house areas, often have abusive fathers and busy/uncaring mothers. The child grows up deprived of love and attention and becomes the only things he has ever learned to be as he grows up.
There are of course always exceptions and cultural variations but I believe this applies well to most western world cultures.