Wpływ wychowania religijnego na aktualną praktykę wiary wśród polskiej emigracji zarobkowej

Abstract

Educating children results from the fundamental care for human life and the right to life, which entails parental duties in the integral upbringing of their children. Parents expect support in the process primarily from the government but also from social institutions as well as the Church community. Undoubtedly, a sign of the times is the growing migration for job-seeking purposes, which brings about new experience and has an influence not only on financial living standards but also religious and social life. Therefore, the results of research presented here may provide a stimulus for reflection on the shape of religious education in the family, especially its impact on further adult life. The Poles are widely believed to hold Christian values in high esteem. Catechesis and practicing the faith in compliance with the teachings of Jesus Christ begin in early life and much of that is held within the family. The large-scale migration of recent years poses a question of whether religious values and practices learned at home will be maintained in another country and community? An attempt to answer the question was a study conducted among Polish job immigrants to Great Britain in 2018–2019. The survey aimed to assess the extent to which the present standards of religious life are influenced by those values and behavioural norms that comply with Church teachings and were learned at home.