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

% of married adults who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA38%62%209
Assemblies of God40%60%266
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints56%44%437
Churches of Christ43%57%263
Episcopal Church27%73%298
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)31%69%393
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)35%65%480
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)41%59%105
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod30%70%268
National Baptist Convention29%71%165
Nondenominational evangelical49%51%445
Nothing in particular (religion important)44%56%793
Nothing in particular (religion not important)40%60%1,277
Presbyterian Church (USA)26%74%282
Southern Baptist Convention33%67%1,103
United Church of Christ34%66%134
United Methodist Church32%68%986
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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