Parent of children under 18 among men by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among men by parental status

% of men who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA24%76%190
Assemblies of God31%69%197
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints39%61%331
Churches of Christ28%72%211
Episcopal Church16%84%237
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)27%73%286
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)28%72%408
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod19%81%220
National Baptist Convention22%78%174
Nondenominational evangelical34%66%346
Nothing in particular (religion important)26%74%1,071
Nothing in particular (religion not important)22%78%1,679
Presbyterian Church (USA)21%79%198
Southern Baptist Convention26%74%931
United Methodist Church25%75%709
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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