Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion

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This finding looks at the relationship between family structure and religious attendance and academic performance among teenagers.

On average, teens from intact families with frequent religious attendance earned the highest GPA (2.94) when compared to (a) their peers from intact families with low to no religious attendance (2.75), (b) peers from non-intact families with frequent religious attendance (2.72), and (c) peers from non-intact families with low to no religious attendance (2.48).

Sample or Data Description
Data come from Wave I (1994-1995) and Wave II (1996) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (“Add Health”), a nationally representative survey of 90,000 American adolescents from grades 7 to 12, aged 12 to 17, on average. The analytic sample is a sub-sample, which consists of 14,027 adolescents who had responded to the “in-home” section of the survey in Wave II.

Source
Fagan, Patrick, A Portrait of Family and Religion in America: Key Outcomes for the Common Good, (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation 2006), pp. .

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