{"id":282649,"date":"2025-12-15T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=282649"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:50:36","slug":"how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously\/","title":{"rendered":"How parents are raising their children, religiously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This Pew Research Center analysis looks at how parents are raising their children religiously. It is part of a broader report<\/a> that focuses on patterns of religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. The report also looks at how certain social and demographic factors may relate to religious switching. Other analyses in the report look at the reasons people identify with (or leave) Protestantism<\/a>; the reasons people identify with (or leave) Catholicism<\/a>; and the reasons people are religiously unaffiliated<\/a> (or stop being religiously unaffiliated).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center conducts high-quality research to inform the public, journalists and leaders. Studying Americans\u2019 religious identities is a key part of the Center\u2019s long-standing research agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This analysis includes findings from a survey of 8,937 U.S. adults who are part of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel<\/a>. The survey was conducted May 5-11, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions<\/a> from that survey that we used for this analysis, as well as the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broader report also includes findings from the Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), a survey of 36,908 U.S. adults. It was conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, and has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 0.8 percentage points. The RLS was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Templeton Religion Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the full list of questions<\/a> from the RLS, as well as the topline<\/a> and details about the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

The religiousness of U.S. adults is strongly linked with how much religion they had in their lives as kids<\/a>. So we wondered: How are parents today raising their children \u2013 the next generation of adults \u2013 when it comes to religion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our May 2025 survey, we asked parents how often their children attend religious services, how often they talk with their kids about religion, how religious their household is, and whether their children have the same religion they do. We found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n