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05/25/05 - News and city section
 
Most boys at Christian schools say no to sex
By Dominic Hayes Education Correspondent, Evening Standard
 
A Christian education makes teenage boys less permissive, according to research out today.
 
Boys at private Anglican and Catholic schools are more likely to oppose sex before marriage and be less tolerant of pornography.
 
They are also less likely to feel depressed or consider suicide, according to a survey of 13,000 teenagers by Professor Leslie J Francis from the University of Wales, Bangor.
 
Church schools, state and private, have a good reputation among parents for providing a strong moral education and high academic standards.
 
Catholic and Church of England schools in London are frequently the most over-subscribed.
 
Professor Francis questioned boys aged between 13 and 15 at a number of non-denominational comprehensives and independent Christian secondary schools.
 
Three quarters of Christian pupils said it was wrong to have sex before the legal age of consent at 16, compared with 29 per cent of other teenagers.
 
And 73 per cent of the Christians interviewed said abortion was always wrong, compared with 39 per cent of their peers.
 
Professor Francis, whose research is published in the British Journal of Religious Education, also found that Christian school pupils appeared to have a more optimistic outlook on life.

[TBC: It is encouraging to see that in these days of compromise, the influence of even a moderately biblically based education still has an impact. The promise of Isaiah:55:11 continues to be fulfilled even in the midst of flawed situations. "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."]