RAISING
MORAL KIDS

Topics: Children; Empathy; Family; Morality; Values

References: Deuteronomy 6:6–7; Proverbs 22:6, 15; Ephesians 6:4

Eighty-one percent of mothers and 78 percent of fathers plan to send their young child to Sunday school or some other kind of religious training. That’s according to Newsweek’s Karen Springen, who also found that, for many parents, raising a child who is empathetic, knows right from wrong, and attempts to follow the Golden Rule is more important than that child becoming wealthy or a president.

Parents have always made instilling moral values a priority. “But in today’s fast-paced world, where reliable role models are few and acts of violence by children are increasingly common, the quest to raise a moral child has taken on a new urgency,” says Springen.

—Karen Springen, “Raising a Moral Child,” Newsweek special issue: “Your Child” (Fall–Winter 2000)