To locate codes of ethics, pledges, oaths, and so on pertaining to schools, colleges, and universities, refer instead to the Schools' codes of ethics category in the Honest Business/Association blog.
Pledges Pertaining to Your Child’s Education
The following are pledges and promises pertaining to your participation in the education of your children.
Tech Etiquette
Laurie Puhn, in one of her recent blog posts at Rudeness, Interrupted – The "Golden Rules of Tech-etiquette" – offers a list of etiquette "don'ts" pertaining to using everyday technical devices, including phones, email, and so on (click here).
Pledges of Respect for Others
Ray Cruz has created 30 pledges under the heading of The Civil Gentleman (html version or pdf version).
Pledges to the Family
The following is an example of a pledge of respect for one's family, one's heritage, one's history.
Pledges for Environmentally Sensitive Behavior
Here are some pledges that are especially useful for individuals, families, or communities wanting to maintain or improve the quality of their environment. (Related topics: Refer also to the Earth associations' codes category.)
- Smoke-Free Home (and car) Pledge (E.P.A.)
- Oceans Alive Pledge to protect and restore the health of the America's oceans
- Electronic Recycler's Pledge of True Stewardship (dealing with electronic hazardous waste)
- Clean Car Pledge (advocating cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars)
- Webranger Pledge for kids (National Parks Service)
- Pledge Not to Poison (through greater chemical awareness; N.C. Chemical Injury Network)
Pledges Against Drinking-and-Driving
The following is a link to pledges against drinking-and-driving: Angel Outside My Window.
Civility, Character, Etiquette Codes of Ethics
Here are some codes of ethics, pledges, oaths, or affirmations that emphasize the importance of civility, good character, proper etiquette, etc.
- Modern code of chivalry (by Brian R. Price)
- Gene Autry's Cowboy Code
- Kids for Character pledge (Character Counts)
- George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour (while we do not intend to cover etiquette generally on this website, we feel this to be a worthy exception.)
- Budo Ninjutsu warriors Ethical Code
- Personal Pledge (Larry Elder)
Internet Codes of Ethics
The following are links to personal/family codes of ethics, pledges, contracts, and oaths for safely and ethically using the Internet. (Related topics: See also the Blogging codes category in the Honest Business/Association blog.)
- The Core Rules of Netiquette (excerpted from Netiquette by Virginia Shea)
- Internet Safety Pledges (grades 3-6)
- Internet Safety Pledges (middle and high school)
- Family Contract for Online Safety — For Kids
- Family Contract for Online Safety — For Parents
- Christian Internet code of ethics (Nazarene Network)
- Ethics Pledge Program for endorsing and monitoring all website award programs
Historic Ethical Codes Throughout the World
Here are links to codes of ethics and pledges worldwide from ancient times to the early 20th century. (Related topics: For constitutions, treaties, and other American declarations of principles, promises, and so on, refer to Historic American Documents category in the Honesty Government blog.)
- Late Mediaeval Oaths for Kings of Arms, Heralds, and Pursuivants
- 19th-century Teetotal/Abstinence Pledge Cards of early temperance societies (Univ. of Central Lancashire website)
- Versions of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance and its history
- Chinese Physician Commandments (from An Orthodox Manual of Surgery, circa 1613, Chen Shih-Kung)
- Hippocratic Oath (NOVA)
- Oath of Maimonides
- American Medical Association Code of Ethics: AMA Code of Ethics 1903
HEBREW OATH
CHINESE OATHS AND CANONS