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Religious participation during adolescence may shape civic engagement
later in life. Recent research suggests that religious involvement
during the teenage years may lead to greater electoral participation
in early adulthood. Young adults who had participated in religious youth groups during middle school were 17 percent more likely to be registered to vote than their peers who did not participate in religious groups, according to a recent study that examined the connection between youth activities and voting behaviors. As well, young registered voters who had participated in religious youth groups were 25 percent more likely to vote in the first presidential election after their eighteenth birthday than those who had not participated in religious groups as adolescents. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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Findings on Youth Religious Participation:
 Younger adolescents tended to participate more in religious activities...(more) Religious youth were less likely to be delinquent...(more) Family Research Experts:
Pat Fagan William H. G. FitzGerald Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues Christine Kim Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy Studies Jennifer Marshall Director, Domestic Policy Studies For Interviews call Media Relations at (202) 675-1761 |
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Events:Religious Practice and Civic Life: What the Research Says October 4, 2007 |