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Understanding UK Children's Demographics, Family Structures, and Spiritual Development

The UK has a diverse demographic landscape with a population of 63 million, of which 18% are aged 0-14. The population includes 4 million men and 5.5 million women aged 65 and older, with single-person households representing 29% of all family structures. In terms of families, there are 12.2 million married couples and 2.0 million lone parents. Concerns related to commercialization, media influence, and family breakdown affect children’s development and spirituality. This conference explores these critical themes and their implications for future leaders and society.

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Understanding UK Children's Demographics, Family Structures, and Spiritual Development

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  1. CGMC Day Conference

  2. UK Population • 63 million • 18% 0-14 5.6m boys 5.3m girls 15.7% 65+ 4.0m men 5.5m women 26.4 million Households 29% single person 18.2 million families

  3. UK Families 26.4million Households 29% single person 20% 4+ 18.2 million families – 38% with dependent children • 12.2 million married couples • 2.9 million cohabiting (1.5m 1996) 1.8m children (0.9m 1996) • 2.0 million lone parents (1.6m 1996) • 89,000 looked after children • Fertility rate 1964 2.95 2001 1.63 2011 1.97 (Replacement rate 2.075)

  4. Childhood in Britain • Commercialisation • Sexualisation • Media-fication • Family Breakdown • Poverty • Education

  5. Reports • Compass –Commercialisation of C 2008; • UNICEF Report Card 2007 & 2012 • Children’s Society – Good Childhood 2009 ++ • Mothers’ Union – Bye Buy Childhood 2010 • Bailey – Letting Children be Children 2011 • Action for Children – Child Neglect Review 2011 • Loughborough University • Sue Palmer – Toxic Childhood

  6. Children & Church • 2010 - 375,800 under 15s • 2020 - 183,700?? • 1998-2005 104,000 left (256,000 predicted) • Baptist Union 2009-10 Children +2.5% 78,648 Young people +3.5% 39,602 Most people come to faith before they are 13 25% Primary Schools in England C of E 8% Secondary Schools 1,000,000 children in church schools

  7. Children & Christian Story • 38% 5-7 year olds didn’t know Christmas Day celebrates birth of Jesus (DJ Research 2012) • 20% Thought - Simon Cowell’sb’day • Basic details about the Easter story are known by as few as half of the people polled in a survey.

  8. Theology • Human Development – Attachment, Brain, Morality, Cognition 0-7, Play • Faith Development Theories – Fowler & Westerhoff • Children’s Spirituality – Rebecca Nye, Jerome Berryman • Child Theology Movement – Keith White • Brueggemann – ‘Missed the child in the Scriptures’

  9. Study & Training • Yet how much of this context do we allow to shape our study and training? • How seriously do we ‘place the child in the midst’ and see what happens? • How are we helping future leaders to ‘become like a child?’

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