Children justify wrongdoing as loyalty to friends and in-group standing.

Evidence

Children’s moral justifications absolve fighting and lying as a social obligation to protect their friends and to preserve the respect of their peer group or family. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 252

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 252