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| '70 per cent of people in Britain call themselves Christian and say they believe in God'. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| In 2002, children aged between 10 and 17 committed 49,200 crimes. Over 6,000 of these were acts of violence. | |
| Crime | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| Ireland is rapidly moving from a conservative, religious society to a modern, secular European nation, with Catholic church attendance plummeting from 85 per cent of the population to 50 per cent in 20 years. The 20s-40s age group is the largest in the evangelical Church. | |
| Church | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| A survey carried out at a Christian youth conference by the Evangelical Fellowship of Cambodia in 2001 found that a worrying number of young people learned about sex from pornography easily obtained through magazines and videos. What's more, the survey revealed that girls under the age of 18 were nearly five times as likely to have read pornographic literature compared with those 19-21, and 10 times as likely compared with those over 22. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| Statistics from the USA indicate that four in 10 American pastors admit visiting pornographic websites. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| 33 per cent of all UK Internet users access pornography online, some of that 33 per cent may include pastors. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| The US porn industry releases around 10,000 new titles every year, compared to some 400 from Hollywood. And it is big bucks: Internet porn is netting up to $15billion annually in the US, more than is spent on movie tickets. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| Sixty-nine per cent of pastors from a Christianity Today survey claimed to have first visited porn sites to see what others are struggling with. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| 87 per cent of pastors said they do not have the necessary knowledge or resources to help people fight porn, according to a CARE survey. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| A US survey found that 60 per cent of Christian men turned to their pastor in the first instance to admit they had a problem with porn - but of that 60 per cent, only 20 per cent got a helpful response. | |
| Sex | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| A recent survey in Bliss, the teenage girls magazine, revealed that nine out of 10 readers were unhappy with the way they looked and 64 per cent of those under 13 had been on a diet. Although only 19 per cent were actually medically overweight, 67 per cent believed that they were. | |
| Young People | Idea - March/April 2004 |
| Almost a third of women aged between 16 and 24 drink more than the recommended weekly allowance (RWA), a recent survey by the National Centre for Social Research has revealed. Comparing figures between the sexes, Natcen found that the number of men drinking over the RWA has risen by a third between 1997 and 2002, but womens over-drinking rose shockingly by half. In 1998, almost 40% of young women interviewed drank at least double the recommended daily allowance (three units) but the recent survey showed this has risen to over half. On their heaviest drinking day, 52% of females drank over six units. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork, March 2004 |
| A growing number of young people are breaking the law by leaving school early. A recent study by a crime reduction charity Nacro estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 pupils are missing from schools before sitting GCSE exams or reaching the age of 16. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, March 2004. |
| Teen pregnancy and cases of STDs are still at a worryingly high level.. -There were 1.5 million attendances at genitourinary medicine clinics in 2002, a 15% increase on 2001. -Gonorrhoea increased by 106% between 1996 and 2002. -Genital chalmydia increased by 139% between 1996 and 2002. -Pelvic inflammatory disease, one of the side effects of the symptom-less chlamydia disease, could potentially lead to female infertility. -The Uk still has the hioghest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, but figures are falling The Government aims to halve under 18 conceptions by 2010 -The under 18spregnancy rate has been dropping since 1998 - For the under 18s the conception rate has fallen by 10% , for under 16s it is 11% | |
| Sex | Public Health Laboratory Service. |
| A recent MORI survey showed 91 per cent of the British public trusts doctors to tell the truth, compared with 87 per cent for teachers, 74 per cent for professors and 72 per cent for judges. An American study by Harris puts teachers slightly ahead of medics and professors a little behind judges, but the basic pattern is the same. Christian leaders lost a worrying eight per cent trust rating in Canada last year alone, and there are signs of a similar decline in the USA. Here, some 70 per cent of people still trust the clergy themselves to tell the truth, but trust in the Church as an institution seems to be plummeting. Faith and Nation Commission, points out that the 1990 European Values Survey showed only 43 per cent of people trusting the Church, with just 30 per cent of 18-24 year-olds doing so. | |
| Odd Facts | Idea - March/April 2004 |
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