The advice is to not “push religion” on your children.
Harvard followed 5,000 kids for 14 years.
Teens who attended church weekly were:
18% more likely to report high life satisfaction
18% less likely to suffer depression
33% less likely to abuse substances
Psychologists say religion provides three things nothing else replicates together:
meaning, structure, and belonging.
Obama’s Surgeon General spent years warning about a youth mental health crisis driven by loneliness, loss of purpose, and lack of community.
Secular isn’t neutral.
You will raise your child with someone’s values.
The only question is whose.
(Via Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018)
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