Parent of children under 18 among married adults by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among married adults by parental status

% of married adults who are…

Religious traditionParentsNon-parentsSample size
Buddhist40%60%102
Catholic40%60%3,789
Evangelical Protestant39%61%4,830
Hindu58%42%131
Historically Black Protestant38%62%621
Jehovah's Witness39%61%123
Jewish40%60%496
Mainline Protestant34%66%3,430
Mormon56%44%451
Muslim67%33%110
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")42%58%3,136
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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