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**Special Series: Faith and Family in America, Part Two: Religion and Parenting
**This week, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY continues its special series focusing on the connection between faith and family in America based on an exclusive nationwide survey.
According to the survey, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. between July 25 and August 7, 2005, 50 percent of traditional parents say they attend religious services once a week or more, but only 36 percent of nontraditional parents say the same. On the other hand, 49 percent of both traditional and nontraditional families say they read religious scriptures every week. And 45 percent of traditional families and 42 percent of nontraditional families say they have devotions every week with their families. The findings also revealed that 29 percent of nontraditional families and 25 percent of traditional families say they worry a lot about their children maintaining their religious faith. What are the many challenges for religious parents who want to pass on the principles of their faith to their children and how can a family’s religious practice influence the next generation?
In the second part of “Faith and Family in America,” Betty Rollin visits with a Muslim family, a Catholic divorced mother of four and an interfaith family to explore the concerns of both traditional and nontraditional parents in raising children, gender roles in the home, and how faith is transmitted from one generation to the next. According to University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox, who studies religion and the family, “Parents who are more religious and also are affectionate and firm with their kids are likely to ensure that they will transmit the faith that they have to their children. Parents who are too strict with their kids, who are authoritarian parents, are more likely to see their children rebel, both with the respect to their moral beliefs as well as their religious beliefs.”
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**This week, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY continues its special series focusing on the connection between faith and family in America based on an exclusive nationwide survey.
According to the survey, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. between July 25 and August 7, 2005, 50 percent of traditional parents say they attend religious services once a week or more, but only 36 percent of nontraditional parents say the same. On the other hand, 49 percent of both traditional and nontraditional families say they read religious scriptures every week. And 45 percent of traditional families and 42 percent of nontraditional families say they have devotions every week with their families. The findings also revealed that 29 percent of nontraditional families and 25 percent of traditional families say they worry a lot about their children maintaining their religious faith. What are the many challenges for religious parents who want to pass on the principles of their faith to their children and how can a family’s religious practice influence the next generation?
In the second part of “Faith and Family in America,” Betty Rollin visits with a Muslim family, a Catholic divorced mother of four and an interfaith family to explore the concerns of both traditional and nontraditional parents in raising children, gender roles in the home, and how faith is transmitted from one generation to the next. According to University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox, who studies religion and the family, “Parents who are more religious and also are affectionate and firm with their kids are likely to ensure that they will transmit the faith that they have to their children. Parents who are too strict with their kids, who are authoritarian parents, are more likely to see their children rebel, both with the respect to their moral beliefs as well as their religious beliefs.”
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