10.28.2009

Parenting Research

Ed Stetzer is the head of Lifeway Research, the research arm of Lifeway publications. He posted the following announcement on his blog today:

"We recently contracted to do an analysis of successful parenting from a biblical perspective. As a researcher, this interests me. As a father, this has my full attention.

With the overwhelming amount of information and advice out there relating to raising children parents don't always know who's offering real wisdom. And as Christian parents we want to to raise children to become gospel-believing, Christ-centered, mission-focused, young adults. But, to whom do we listen?

Well, what we decided to do was to ask parents who have reared children who meet those characteristics. As such, we plan to survey 1000 parents of young adults who are following Christ. And, we want to ask them one simple question: what did you do?

In other words, we want to ask the parents of young adults who are following Jesus how they reared their children.

It is our plan to do these surveys over the next year. Our client will then write a book on the research and I will present the data first at the D6 Conference in Dallas next fall.

Here are some of the categories / questions we are planning to address:

Click here to read the rest.

Also, Dr. Stetzer is asking for feedback from parents regarding any additional topics that they feel would be beneficial from a statistical analysis perspective. So go check out the rest of the announcement and post a comment to encourage Dr. Stetzer and his team to research something that you have an interest in.

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