Moral Development:  Lawrence Kohlberg developed six stages to moral behavior in children and adults.  Punishment and obedience orientation, interpersonal concordance, law and order orientation, social contract orientation, and universal ethics orientation. All or even just one of these stages will make a good topic for your research paper or you could just do the research paper on Kohlberg. .

1. Moral Development:
Lawrence Kohlberg developed six stages to moral behavior in
children and adults. Punishment and obedience orientation,
interpersonal concordance, law and order orientation, social
contract orientation, and universal ethics orientation. All or
even just one of these stages will make a good topic for your
research paper or you could just do the research paper on
Kohlberg.