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Of those brought up as Anglicans (24% of the total), around half (47%)

still regard themselves as such, with an almost equal number saying


Two non-religious parents successfully transmit their lack of
religion. Two religious parents have roughly a 50/50 chance of
passing on the faith. The National Centre for Social Research
British Social Attitudes 36 | Religion 22 that they have no religion.
Other specific Protestant denominations fare even worse: only 38% of those brought
up as Presbyterians and
27% of those brought up as Methodists have kept these specific religious
affiliations.
Catholics manage to retain a slim majority, as do generic Christians identifying
with no
named denomination (for both 55% have kept the religious affiliation they were
brought up in).
However, for those of non-Christian faiths, particularly Islam, religious
identity appears to be stickier; only one in ten who were brought up
in one of these religions no longer belongs (93% of those brought up
as a Muslim, still identify as Muslim).

https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/media/39363/bsa_36.pdf

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