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

% of moderates who are…

Religious denominationParentsNon-parentsSample size
American Baptist Churches USA30%70%147
Assemblies of God31%69%106
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints44%56%167
Churches of Christ38%62%135
Episcopal Church20%80%192
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)25%75%264
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)29%71%206
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod25%75%134
National Baptist Convention31%69%171
Nondenominational evangelical37%63%175
Nothing in particular (religion important)30%70%749
Nothing in particular (religion not important)28%72%1,054
Presbyterian Church (USA)22%78%163
Southern Baptist Convention27%73%414
United Methodist Church27%73%623
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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