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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30 percent of people explicitly raised as atheists (excluding other unaffiliateds) remain so as adults.

Jews, Catholics, and most flavors of Protestantism have fertility rates ranging from 2 to 2.5. At the low end of the baby-making spectrum you've got atheists, with 1.6 kids, and agnostics, who average only 1.3.

80% of atheists who have a child or children are white. [/quote]

Not saying your data is wrong, but it is customary to link to a source.  Please do so.

If the sample of atheists is younger that is enough to skew the data right there.

Also, none of your points say anything about atheists “not liking” children.[/quote]

DP -- The info matches some verbiage from this 2015 WaPo article about a Pew study. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/12/charted-the-religions-that-make-the-most-babies/

The article also says "...if atheists and agnostics are having so few kids, how are their numbers increasing? The answer is that many of the religiously unaffiliated are not born, but rather made: many Americans are leaving their faiths and not picking up a new one."[/quote]

NP. The data about how many people raised atheists stay atheist comes from Pew as well: https://www.vox.com/2014/4/28/5659984/only-30-percent-of-kids-raised-as-atheists-stay-that-way-as-adults

It's interesting, even if I'm not totally sure what I think is going on there.[/quote]

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