Atheists’ kids often find religion later in life, report shows

The Pew Research Center released a report earlier this week that looked at the religious landscape of the United States.

Among the findings, Pew reported that almost half of all children who grow up as religiously unaffiliated (that’s about one in 10 Americans kids) end up finding religion later in life.

“Yes, 1 in 5 people raised in a community of faith now identify as non-religious — the primary talking point from yesterday’s well-publicized report,” The Daily Beast reported. “But what most of this week’s flurry of media coverage missed is an even more pronounced trend in the opposite direction: nearly half of everyone raised with no religion is now part of a faith tradition.”

This chart shows how children leave and join religious groups. You’ll notice that 4.3 percent of the 9.2 percent of American kids who grow up as unaffiliated find a religion.