parent should stay home but that it doesn ’ t matter which parent , while one-in-five ( 20 %) believe children are better off if mothers in particular stay home – just 1 % say this about fathers . White evangelicals who think children are better off with a parent at home are evenly split on this question : About a third ( 34 %) think that mothers should stay home , and just as many ( 34 %) say that it does not matter which parent focuses on the family . Roughly half as many White Protestants who are not evangelical ( 16 %) and only one-in-ten religious “ nones ” say that it is best for children if mothers stay home .
Churches Still Recovering from Pandemic Losses attend religious services regularly – are more likely than Americans who say religion is less important or attend religious services less frequently to say that society is better off if people prioritize marriage and procreation . The survey also asked about what is best for children in two-parent families : Are they better off when a parent stays home to focus on the family , or is it just as well if both parents work outside the home ? Most U . S . adults ( 56 %) say that children with two parents are better off when one parent stays home . Again , White evangelicals are the most likely religious subgroup to take this position ( 69 %). Roughly one-in-five American parents with children in their household stay home , a figure that has been consistent for at least three decades . Adults who said that children are better off if a parent forgoes outside work to focus on the family were asked which parent ideally should stay home . About a third of U . S . adults ( 35 %) believe that a
The latest Lifeway Research study found , despite a new variant wave of COVID-19 , 97 % of U . S . Protestant churches met in person during January 2022 , while 3 % say they did not gather for in-person services . The percentage of churches meeting in person is statistically unchanged from an August 2021 Lifeway Research study , when 98 % of churches physically gathered , but is up significantly from the 76 % that met in January 2021 . According to the survey , more than 1 in 5 U . S . Protestant pastors ( 22 %) say their church is close to their January 2020 attendance , with 10 % saying they are at 90 % to 100 % of pre-pandemic levels and 12 % reporting attendance is now higher than before COVID-19 . The same percentage of pastors ( 22 %) reported crowds reaching at least 90 % of their pre-pandemic attendance in August 2021 . In January 2021 , however , only 8 % of churches had such levels . More than 8 in 10 churches have an attendance of at least half of what it was prior to the pandemic . The average U . S . Protestant church reports attendance at 74 % of what it was prior to COVID-19 , which means 1 in 4 pre-pandemic churchgoers are still missing from inperson worship services . Lifeway Research found that the smallest churches , those with attendance less than 50 before COVID-19 , are the most likely to be back at pre-pandemic levels . More than a third of those small churches ( 37 %) report their attendance is at least 90 % of what it was in January 2020 , including 18 % who say they have grown numerically during the pandemic . In January 2022 , more than 9 in 10 U . S . Protestant pastors ( 94 %) say their churches provided some type of video content for their congregations , including 84 % who livestreamed their worship services and 10 % who posted a video of the sermon later . In March 2020 , around 2 in 3 pastors ( 65 %) said they livestreamed services , and more than a quarter ( 27 %) posted a sermon online later . With more churches using online video in recent years , 45 % of Americans said they watched a Christian church service online
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