Generation X and millennial-aged adults who attended evangelical Protestant schools are more likely to get married and have children than their peers who attended public schools, according to a recent study.
In research conducted by the Canada-based think tank Cardus that was released Tuesday, found that among young adults aged 24–39, “EP schoolers are more likely to be married, and less likely to cohabit.”
“By guiding graduates toward traditional marriage and family, evangelical Protestant schools may set up structural constraints and opportunities that encourage evangelical religious orientations and practices,” explained the report.
“Specifically, we would expect that EP-school graduates are more likely to attend church services regularly, and this tendency is enhanced and reinforced for them when they marry and have children.”
The report also found that young adults educated at evangelical Protestant schools are more likely to read the Bible, attend worship, and pray than those who attended public schools.
“Our findings show strong effects of EP schooling on various religious and spiritual outcomes in young adulthood, and these effects hold up after controlling for family-background and demographic variables, including religion of parents,” noted the study.
Researchers used the 2011 and 2014 Cardus Education Surveys for the United States and the CES for…
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