A recent study has found that children of parents who less consistently model the tenets of their faith are more likely to become an atheist at a younger age.
The study, published by the journal Religion Brain & Behavior, featured data from surveys of thousands of atheists who were asked about the age they no longer believed in God or Gods.
The respondents were also asked about the “credibility-enhancing displays” (CRED) of their parents as well as other factors that might have played a role in their decisions to abandon theism.
According to PsyPost.org, the researchers found that when parents engaged in more credibility-enhancing displays of their faith — such as treating other people with kindness in accordance with a faith in Christ or feeding the homeless — their children became atheists at a higher age than parents who did provide provide as many credibility-enhancing displays to their children.
As past research has suggested that exposure to credibility-enhancing displays is an “important variable” for predicting who does and does not become a religious believer, the researchers sought to make more clear if credibility-enhancing displays impact when a person rejects religious beliefs they held during childhood.
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