I came across a blog today that quotes some Swiss research* that apparently shows where both parents attend church regularly, 33% of their children will end up regular churchgoers. However, if only the father attends regularly and the mother not at all, then the number goes up to 44%. The blog makes an important point about the role of fathers in the spiritual welfare of their children, but it would seem that the child's chances of becoming a regular attender are BETTER if mum stays at home or goes shopping on Sunday mornings. Well, in Switzerland at any rate.
Isn't research wonderful?
*The demographic characteristics of the linguistic and religious groups in Switzerland, Werner Haug and Phillipe Warner of the Federal Statistical Office, Neuchatel. In The Demographic Characteristics of National Minorities in Certain European States, Volume 2 of Population Studies No. 31, edited by Werner Haug and others, published by the Council of Europe Directorate General III, Social Cohesion, Strasbourg, January 2000.
Isn't research wonderful?
*The demographic characteristics of the linguistic and religious groups in Switzerland, Werner Haug and Phillipe Warner of the Federal Statistical Office, Neuchatel. In The Demographic Characteristics of National Minorities in Certain European States, Volume 2 of Population Studies No. 31, edited by Werner Haug and others, published by the Council of Europe Directorate General III, Social Cohesion, Strasbourg, January 2000.
3 comments:
I shall do so immediately! Or is it too late.....?
What if you're a lone parent and only Mum is going? Are my children doomed?!
Actually, that should say Karen S. I'll change it immediately.
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