Lena Sin of the Canwest News Service published an article on Children and Spirituality which I found interesting, I would certainly be interested to read more into the study.

Four years ago, two American psychologists put forth a simple question: What do you want for your children?

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Turns out, the hippies were right: Spirituality is a major contributor to children’s overall happiness.

Spirituality - defined as an inner belief system - accounted for eight to 17 per cent of the average child’s sense of happiness, the study showed.

Full Article: Kids need spirituality: study

What I noted interesting in the article was …

Spirituality is not the same thing as religion, Holder and Wallace were clear to point out.

While religion is usually affiliated with an institution, spirituality is related to an inner set of beliefs that guides you in life.

… this sense of spirituality would certainly help to a degree in grounding the younger generation in the turmoil that has inflicted our societies.  I wonder how a spiritually raised generation would be as an adult in a world that has come to lack that sense of being.