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Using 254 mother-father-youth triads gathered from Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist churches, the authors looked at patterns of parent-child value transmission. Mean age ofyouth was 16.0. Parent-child correlations were mixed but often weak. Thirty-three family factors were tested for effect on value transmission; most had no effect, but several enhanced religious value transmission-younger age of parents, parental agreement about religion, and good parent-child relationships. Membership in one denomination or anotherpredicted children's values more than did their parents' values, indicating that value socialization takes place in cultural subgroups more than in nuclear families. Implications are discussed for future research.
Hoge et al. (Sun,) studied this question.