Parental Divorce and Adult Religiosity: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Review of Religious Research - Tập 53 - Trang 85-103 - 2011
Hsien-Hsien Lau1, Nicholas H. Wolfinger2
1Department of Human Development and Family Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
2Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

Tóm tắt

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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Review of Religious Research

Tập 53

85-103

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