Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey |
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Authors: | Hsien-Hsien Lau Nicholas H Wolfinger |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Human Development and Family Studies,National Taiwan Normal University,Taipei,Taiwan;2.Department of Family and Consumer Studies,University of Utah,Salt Lake City,USA |
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Abstract: | This study explores the relationship between parental divorce and religiosity, including religious affiliation change and
church attendance. Data from the 1991, 1998, and 2008 waves of the General Social Survey provide information both on current
religiosity and religiosity in respondents’ families of origin. The results suggest that living with a single divorced parent—but
not a remarried or widowed parent—increases church attendance and the odds of a change in religious affiliation. Catholics
and Protestants from divorced families are disproportionately likely to become apostates as adults, while people growing up
in unaffiliated divorced families more often become affiliated as adults. However, parental divorce has fewer effects on the
likelihood of moving from one denomination to another. |
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