NYM Ministries: What Moral Values are your Children Learning? (from Today's Native Father #121)

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PRODUCT/RESOURCES INDEX Today's Native Father Archive of Articles Free booklets Marriage/Parenting Tip Calendar of workshops E-mail questions or comments	This article is from Today's Native Father, issue #121, May/June, 2002. Related articles from this issue: Habits of Highly Effective Parents Effective Involvement If I were Advertising for a Husband
	What Moral Values are your Children Learning
	Only about 22% of Canadians think divorce is wrong. Only about 31% think it is wrong for a doctor to assist in the suicide of a person who is ill. About 47% believe that taking soft drugs such as marijuana is wrong. However, 89% of Canadians consider shoplifting immoral. This is according to a poll, “Canadians and Immorality,” released in February, 2002, by Leger Marketing. If your children are growing up in the climate from which this poll was taken, wouldn’t you want to know what they really think about right and wrong? Listed below are the activities that Leger Marketing asked Canadians about. These are listed in order of the highest to lowest percent of Canadians considering them immoral. Talk to your older children about these. Find out how they would rank them, from “worst” (always wrong) to “not so bad” (OK under certain circumstances). If possible, show them what the Bible has to say about these activities. Shoplifting Having an extreme extramarital affair (adultery) Taking hard drugs (cocaine, heroine) Tax evasion (trying to get out of paying taxes) Prostitution (being a sex worker) Alcohol abuse Suicide Working under the table (bribery and other dishonest work practices) Taking soft drugs (such as marijuana) Abortion Swearing Homosexuality Doctor-assisted suicide of a person who is ill Pre-marital sex Being an atheist (not believing in God) Divorce This poll and others that reflect the behaviour and beliefs of Canadians can be found at www.legermarketing.com/english/set.html. Thanks to Today’s Family News for bringing this poll to our attention. Today’s Family News is available from Focus on the Family Canada, tfn@fotf.ca.
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