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Eastern North Carolina Teens, Family Members Keep Michael’s Dream Alive
RALEIGH — Born with only half a heart, Michael Russell had a special reason for getting involved in the Tea Party movement.
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Study Surveys Protestant Teens
RALEIGH — Conservative Protestant teenagers are as likely as their mainline and black Protestant counterparts to engage in some socially risky behaviors, according to an ongoing national study of youth's social and religious practices. But data analyzed by the National Study on Youth and Religion revealed that the conservative and black youth are much less likely to embrace moral relativism than teens in mainline denominations, according to researchers. "Most Protestant teens report relatively high levels of moral clarity," the report said, but "moral awareness … does not always produce moral actions."
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Study Examines Teens on Religion
RALEIGH — Contrary to “widespread and persistent stereotypes,” most American adolescents are not alienated from or hostile toward organized religion, and as much as two-thirds of those youth closely agree with the religious beliefs of their parents, a UNC-Chapel Hill study says. The findings were released Tuesday as part of a four-year research project, the National Study of Youth and Religion. The authors said their findings refute the notion of a “storm and stress” stereotype found in old clinical sampling biases and popular books on youth.
