Parent of children under 18 among never married adults by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among never married adults by parental status

% of never married adults who are…

Religious traditionParentsNon-parentsSample size
Catholic13%87%1,291
Evangelical Protestant14%86%1,212
Historically Black Protestant28%72%598
Jewish1%99%138
Mainline Protestant13%87%787
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")11%89%2,288
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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