How Overprotective Parenting is Driving Young People Away from Church

In 2013, a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9820516/Teacher-unfairly-sacked-because-she-pruned-bush-without-risk-checks.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">UK school teacher was sacked</a> for failing to complete a risk assessment before pruning a bush at her school. If you think that’s ridiculous, then you would also be appalled to learn that the Welsh Ambulance Service refused to take <a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/health-safety-gone-mad-nephew-4732069" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this man’s</a> 95-year-old Aunt to hospital for a basic medical procedure because of the potential health and safety risk posed by the three front steps of her house. Whether we like it or not, we live in a society that attempts to manage risk, analyze it, reduce it, and ultimately eliminate it. Before 1970, seat belts were an optional upgrade in cars in my home country — Australia. I happen to think seat belts are a good, sensible addition to vehicles, by the way, but these days, a child has to be in a specially fitted — and downright expensive — child restraint until he or she is seven years old. I’m pretty sure at the age of seven, I was riding in the back of a truck — unrestrained, of course. <a href="https://medium.com/backyard-theology/how-overprotective-parenting-is-driving-young-people-away-from-church-b6f43b68b05a">Read More</a>