More studies.
On the elderly:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/119/3/410.abstract
Three psychosocial variables were significant predictors: religiousness, happiness (as rated by the interviewers), and presence of living offspring. The first two reduced the risk of mortality primarily among the elderly who were in poor health, while the third one did not interact with health status.
Regarding adolescents:
http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(05)00466-0/abstract
Constructs such as spiritual coping and religious decision-making were the ones most often studied and were generally positively associated with health outcomes.
Children:
http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp5215.html
A body of literature has developed that relates religion (denomination) and religiosity (religious beliefs and practices) to the physical, mental, and emotional health of adults. Studies suggest that religious involvement among adults is associated with lower mortality rates, less frequent unhealthy behavior (eg., drug and alcohol use and abuse), and a lower prevalence of anxiety, depression and suicide, among other health outcomes (eg., Johnson et al., 2002; Koenig et al., 2001; Lee and Newberg, 2005; McCullough and Smith, 2003; Regnerus, 2003).
Several studies of youth found that involvement in religion is associated with low rates of suicide, attempted suicide, and contemplation of suicide (eg., Borowsky et al., 2001; Donahue and Benson, 1995;Kandel et al., 1991; Stein et al., 1989, 1992; Watt and Sharp, 2001). Involvement in religious activities among youth is also associated with a lower engagement in unhealthy behavior, such as alcohol and drug use and unsafe sexual behavior (eg., Donahue and Benson, 1995; Miller and Gur, 2002).
This study suggests that the findings in the literature of a positive health effect of religious affiliation and practice for adults may also apply to children. The literature also indicates that better child health results in better adult health. Thus, starting a child on the path of religious belief and involvement can have beneficial health effects in the short-run and in the long-run. This has favorable implications for personal well-being and health care costs.These findings have implications for religious communities and denominations. Theinvolvement of children in religious practices, and providing them with the opportunity to obtain religious human capital, will not only increase their religious involvement as they become adults, but will also have beneficial spill-over effects, even if not intended, on the health of the congregation.
Finally, there are implications for public policy. A religion-friendly public policy, even without favoring any one religion, can have positive have positive effects on the population’s health status, even among children, and thereby reduce public expenditures on health care. Health care costs have been rising rapidly in the past several decades, from 5% of GDP in 1960 to 16% in 2005, i.e., $6,697 per person per year, and are expected to reach 20% by 2015 (Catlin et al., 2007;Sood et al., 2007). In addition, healthier adults generate greater productivity and higher life satisfaction.
http://www.livescience.com/health/070424_religion_kids.html
Study: Religion is Good for Kids
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect.
John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State University sociologist and his colleagues asked the parents and teachers of more than 16,000 kids, most of them first-graders, to rate how much self control they believed the kids had, how often they exhibited poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with their peers.
The researchers compared these scores to how frequently the children’s parents said they attended worship services, talked about religion with their child and argued abut religion in the home.
The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—especially when both parents did so frequently—and talked with their kids about religion were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents.
But when parents argued frequently about religion, the children were more likely to have problems. “Religion can hurt if faith is a source of conflict or tension in the family,” Bartkowski noted.
Most Atheists think this life is all that there is to be had, the fact that those that believe in an afterlife and attend church regularly get MORE of it is, therefore, ironic:
http://www.livescience.com/health/060403_church_good.html
Churchgoers Live Longer
There are many things you can do to increase your life expectancy: exercise, eat well, take your medication and ... go to church.
A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked at how many years are added to life expectancy based on:
Regular physical exercise: 3.0-to-5.1 years
Proven therapeutic regimens: 2.1-to-3.7 years
Regular religious attendance: 1.8-to-3.1 years
Looks like the atheist claim equating religious upbringing to child abuse does not pass the measure they claim to love so much: empirical evidence.
Religious upbringing equates with better health, better relationships, less substance abuse, lower suicide, and greater well being.
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