Use Jubilee to restore moral values, says bishop Writing in a Bible Society pamphlet, Dr Chartres says: "Britain is indeed a better place today materially than ever before, but that material progress has been at the expense of our relationships with one another, our communal life. Within families, within communities, within society as a whole, our relationships are more strained, more fragile, more broken than we care to recognise. The pamphlet, called "In Jubilee then and now: A big idea for the 21st century," has been sent to all MPs and is being widely distributed. In it Dr Chartres states: "As we celebrate the Jubilee of our justly popular monarch, we have an opportunity to ask some wider questions in the spirit of Jubilee, to pause, look back and ask where we are as a nation, and where we are going." "Promiscuity, separation and divorce have reached epidemic proportions in our society," he says. Perhaps, then, we shouldn't be surprised that depression and the prescription of anti-depressants has reached a similarly epidemic level. Literally millions of children grow up without knowing a stable, loving, secure family life - and that is not to count the hundreds of thousands more who don't even make it out of the womb each year. He also called for action to tackle youth unemployment. The extent of youth unemployment is appalling. The waste of human talent is unsustainable morally and economically," he says. Dr Chartres said the Jubilee celebrations should be used to "focus on hope" and "reset" the situation in Britain. He adds: "Contemporary society lacks any credible narrative to release energies for the profound changes which are necessary and to give us a direction of travel. We need to go further than a bare recital of economic indicators and embrace a common vision that offers us hope. But he praised the "quiet dignity" of the Monarch, who he described as the most famous public figure on earth and the most respected. "The way in which she and her family have reached out to include newly established British communities has provided a focus for continuing but expanding national self-respect," he says, adding that the manner of the Queen's reign had helped the peaceful transformation of Britain's national identity.