• Fifty-six percent of Americans who no longer attend services say their attendance as a child has had a positive influence on their life.  
• Fifty-five percent feel their childhood attendance gave them a good moral foundation
•  Fifty-one percent say they are glad they attended as a child
•  Forty-eight percent say it gave them important religious knowledge
• Thirty-five percent believe it helped them grow spiritually
• Thirty-four percent feel it helped them prepare for life as an adult
• Twenty-seven percent say it deepened their spiritual faith. 
• Thirty-one percent of adults currently not attending services say their childhood attendance turned them off to organized religion
• Twenty-four percent believe that past experience is not relevant to their life today.
• Thirteen percent believe it sent them down a different spiritual path than the one they were on at that time.

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