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

% of baby Boomers who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA8%92%194
Assemblies of God12%88%190
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints15%85%209
Churches of Christ14%86%182
Episcopal Church14%86%215
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)10%90%260
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)12%88%354
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod9%91%183
National Baptist Convention10%90%216
Nondenominational evangelical22%78%269
Nothing in particular (religion important)14%86%650
Nothing in particular (religion not important)8%92%943
Presbyterian Church (USA)13%87%173
Southern Baptist Convention11%89%790
United Church of Christ10%90%101
United Methodist Church11%89%676
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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