Parent of children under 18 among adults who attend services weekly or more by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who attend services weekly or more by parental status

% of adults who attend services weekly or more who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA33%67%202
Assemblies of God35%65%314
Church of God in Christ34%66%122
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%57%497
Churches of Christ30%70%280
Episcopal Church18%82%168
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)19%81%266
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)25%75%438
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)40%60%123
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod24%76%221
National Baptist Convention22%78%295
Nondenominational charismatic32%68%122
Nondenominational evangelical39%61%483
Nothing in particular (religion important)36%64%219
Presbyterian Church (USA)19%81%212
Seventh-day Adventist29%71%115
Southern Baptist Convention26%74%1,105
United Methodist Church24%76%760
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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