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. He found that 62 per cent of those educated at Christian private schools claimed to believe that pornography was too widely available. Only four in 10 boys at other schools agreed.While only 13 per cent of boys at nondenominational schools were against sex outside marriage, the proportion jumped to 64 per cent among their Christian-educated peers.
73 per cent of the Christians interviewed said abortion was always wrong, compared with 39 per cent of their peers.
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