In his theory Kohlberg traced the steps by which children grow toward making truly moral judgments. The steps represent a progressive disentangling or differentiation of moral values and judgment from other types of values and judgments. Children who are successful in advancing to the highest stage of moral judgment by the time they become adolescents are ones who base their appraisals of moral issues on concepts of justice. In Kohlberg’s view, this means that such young people ground their opinion on the right of the individual, and they judge an act wrong if it violates those rights . Kohlberg further contended that a right in this sense is founded on equality and reciprocity, so that people are equal in terms of exchange and of reward for merit justice implies that law is impartial and applies to all equally in its maintenance of the rights of the individual