A Interesting Peice of Information

[mattyohh]

I found this on Page 2 of our school Newsletter.

During my regular reading last week I came upon an article in 'The Church of England Newspaper' (Thursday 2 March 2006) with the headline: Faith Plays a Part in Health of Teenagers. The article referred to some highly significant findings from a study carried out by the University of Wales in which over 23,000 students from urban schools between the ages of 13-15 were interviewed. This study backed up the findings of a Children's Society report from 2005 that highlighted the role of spirituality in influencing the overall wellbeing of young people.

The findings of both studies included the following points, which are equally relevant for our young people at Canterbury:

''Young people with no faith have such low self-esteem that one in four have contemplated suicide."

"Teenagers with no religious belief were found to be much more likely to feel bad about themselves and their relationships with other people."

"Teenagers who belonged to a faith community were much more likely to feel that their life had a sense of purpose."

"Increasingly it is recognised that the full and proper assessment of the health of young people needs to take into account three dimensions: physical health, mental health and spiritual health. Spiritual health is about relationships. Good spiritual health is reflected in four areas: good relationship with self, good relationship with others, good relationship with the environment, good relationship with the transcendent."

At Canterbury, we are doing all we can to foster the health of our students in all three dimensions.

Yours in the love of Jesus.

REV. Elroy Mee
Chaplain

I don't really think that this study is accurate. I think that this is more of the Church trying to scare parents into taking their children to church or trying to push faith onto them.

What do you guys think?