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38% of Teens Believe It's Okay to Cheat in Order to Get Ahead

Almost 40% of teens in a Junior Achievement annual survey said they thought it was okay to cheat, plagiarize, lie or even behave violently in order to succeed. About a fourth said that cheating on a test is justified by a personal desire to succeed, and that violence can be acceptable when settling an argument or seeking revenge.

"The high percentages of teenagers who freely admit that unethical behavior can be justified is alarming," said Dr. David Miller, director of the Yale Center for Faith. "This way of thinking will inevitably lead to unethical if not illegal actions that will damage individual lives and ruin corporate reputations."

A majority of teens in the survey (57%) also believe that whatever they post on the Internet should not be used against them when they seek employment.

Junior Achievement, an organization that promotes business careers among young people, surveyed over 700 American teens.

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