![]() By comparison, fewer than half of parents who attend a few times a year or less often (44%) report that their teen has all the same religious beliefs as they do. About two-thirds of parents who attend worship services once or twice a month or more often (65%) say their teen holds all the same religious beliefs they do. Parents who regularly attend worship services are particularly likely to say their teen’s religious beliefs are similar to their own. Still, large majorities of parents across all the large religious groups analyzed in this report say that their teen shares at least some of their beliefs no more than 7% in any religious tradition say that their teen’s beliefs are quite different. ![]() By comparison, two-thirds of evangelical Protestant parents and 55% of Catholic parents say their teen’s religious beliefs are all the same as their own. Just four-in-ten mainline Protestant and unaffiliated parents say their teen’s religious beliefs are completely the same as their own. ![]() Mainline Protestant and religiously unaffiliated parents are relatively unlikely to think their teen shares all their religious beliefs. Few parents (4%) say the teenager slated to take the survey after them has “quite different” religious beliefs. Another four-in-ten (42%) report that their teen has “some of the same” religious beliefs. About half (53%) of parents who responded to this survey before handing it off to their teen say that teen has “all the same” religious beliefs as they do. Many parents think that their teen’s religious beliefs are similar to their own beliefs. Half of parents say their teen has all the same religious beliefs as they do Some of these teens say they make their own decisions about what faith (if any) to follow, while others adopt the religion of the parent who is more interested in religion, and still others have parents who choose for them. Although many teens follow their parents’ lead when it comes to religion, this plays out in various ways for teens whose parents differ in their religious identities. Mainline Protestant and unaffiliated teens are about three times more likely than evangelical Protestant teens to live in an interfaith home. Their prevalence, however, varies considerably. With increasing religious diversity in the U.S., interfaith marriages are now relatively commonplace. Just 8% of teens whose religious beliefs differ from their parents’ report that they are more religious than their parent. ![]() What do adolescents mean when they say their religious beliefs are different from their parent’s beliefs? Some common responses from teens are that they question some of the beliefs their parents hold, that they don’t like going to worship services as much as their parents want them to, that they are less strict or conservative than their parent, and that they don’t believe in God or in religion. And although about half of teens say they have at least some religious beliefs that differ from their parent’s, only 9% report that having different religious beliefs causes conflict in their family. Additional analyses, however, show that among teens who say they have at least some different religious beliefs from their parent, a third report that their parent does not know their religious beliefs are different. And, among teens whose responding parent says they have all the same religious beliefs, 76% give the same response. About half of the parents surveyed say their teen holds “all the same” religious beliefs as they do, and another four-in-ten parents say their teen holds “some” of the same religious beliefs they do.ĭo teens agree with this? Indeed, about half of teens ages 13 to 17 say their parent has all the same religious beliefs as they do. But what about religious beliefs? Do teens and their parents also tend to be in alignment on that front? For most families, the answer appears to be yes. 35 For example, there is considerable overlap between how often teens and their parents attend religious worship services (see Chapter 3). Research suggests that parents have a large impact on their children’s religious behaviors. ![]()
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