Childhood Experience and Religious Affiliation Survey

  Wiccans/Pagans were the least likely to have gone to a place of worship with their father, or mother "a few times or more" as children. The colours indicated affiliation at the time of the survey, and do not necessarily indicate the type of place of worship attended. Respondents were asked in two separate questions about a short least of spiritual/religious activities which their father/mother joined them with "a few times or more" during their childhood. It may be of interest to the reader that 72.34% of Wiccans/Pagans (n=141) were Canadian, in contrast to 18.09% of the everyone surveyed (n=3079).

  Notable correlations were found between people adhering the Protestant, Catholic or Orthodox faiths and paternal, maternal prayer involvement when they were children.  Meanwhile, Pagans/Wiccans and Atheists tended to not have been prayed with relative to those who adhere to the major Monotheistic faiths.  Respondents were asked in Q7 "Throughout your childhood did your father do any of the following with you a few times or more? (Check all that apply.)" One of the options was "Pray with you". A similar question was asked regarding respondent's mothers in question 9.  This is consistent with CRED theory which says that Credibility Enhancing Displays increase the likelihood that the behavior will be imitated into the future. Speculatively, it's plausible that parents who pray with their child also exert higher social pressure to maintain their adherence.