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

% of women who are…

Religious traditionParentsNon-parentsSample size
Buddhist23%77%126
Catholic33%67%3,760
Evangelical Protestant32%68%4,518
Historically Black Protestant34%66%1,096
Jehovah's Witness32%68%157
Jewish23%77%417
Mainline Protestant27%73%3,297
Mormon44%56%316
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")31%69%3,080
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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