All the world religions are against lying. As an atheist, Sam Harris looked into why no lying is allowed with virtually no exceptions. https://www.samharris.org

All the world religions are against lying. As an atheist, Sam Harris looked into why no lying is allowed with virtually no exceptions. https://www.samharris.org/books/lying https://www.samharris.org/books/lying Tremendously good book and I bet he could expand upon it further. So never lying is already the standard. What makes it so important for kids? >As a parent, though, I’ve discovered that there’s a fine line between omission and deception. Not a spectrum, this is a binary evaluation. >They can’t manage their own expectations and output if you’re always narrating the story for them. Sooner or later, you have to get out of their way. It's more important. Imagine a world where a child lives with a single parent who compulsively lies. Even these people won't lie 100% of the time but the child would have a world view of inverse of their parents. The child will know and understand they are regularly being lied to and then they start questioning everything. There are so many lies that they even question the truths they were given. They are then on their own through adolescence and tremendously confused about the world. Their lack of guidance is than damaging to their morality structure. Near late adolescence is when it will break. They will realize that they are on their own and have missed a key stage of development. They will then need to self-construct their own. They will not allow social norms to be this construction. In some cases this will be good for society. Someone comes along and discovers a social norm that is wrong and that's how it changes. This is something that may always be with society. I believe this is something that does have to be proactively addressed in schools where parents fail to 100% of the time tell the truth.