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

% of conservatives who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA32%68%213
Assemblies of God35%65%287
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints40%60%406
Churches of Christ27%73%265
Episcopal Church19%81%148
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)25%75%214
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)30%70%493
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod21%79%260
National Baptist Convention25%75%158
Nondenominational charismatic39%61%109
Nondenominational evangelical40%60%438
Nothing in particular (religion important)35%65%527
Nothing in particular (religion not important)25%75%493
Presbyterian Church (USA)17%83%152
Southern Baptist Convention25%75%1,212
United Methodist Church23%77%723
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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