Posted on 10/21/2025 10:24:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As they grapple with a profound disconnection from their parents and older adults in general, nearly 40% of young adult women in Generation Z — those born between 1999 and 2015 — now identify as religiously unaffiliated, according to new data released by Barna Research.
The data from 2,000 adults and teenagers between the ages of 13 and 24 shows that 38% of Gen Z women (ages 18 to 24) currently identify as atheist, agnostic or say they have no faith at all. This is higher than the 32% of men in the same age group who said they are religiously unaffiliated.
The data was collected in the summer of 2023 and shared in a report published last week. The error margin for this data is 2.1 percentage points.
While Barna’s recent research has shown promising openness among Gen Z to explore spirituality and faith, including in Jesus, females were found to be the most likely to disengage from church, prayer and belief among young adults and teens.
Young adult Gen Z women reported the lowest rates of Bible reading, church attendance and prayer among their peers, the report said.
In general, some 73% of all Gen Z respondents report that they believe in God or a higher power, and 47% say they believe Jesus is the only way to God. When it comes to Gen Z young adult women, those who say they believe drops significantly.
Only 58% of women 18 to 24 report having prayed within the past week. That is much lower than the 63% of younger teenage girls and more than 70% of teenage boys who said they prayed. Only 31% of young adult women reported reading the Bible over the same period compared to 41% across all other Gen Z groups. Only 30% of them also reported attending church in the last seven days. It was the lowest of any demographic group in the survey.
This level of spiritual disengagement comes as other findings by Barna researchers have shown that Gen Z women are struggling with what they see as a lack of support from the adults in their lives including their parents.
Just 23% of Gen Z young adult women feel supported by their father compared to the 47% of younger teenage girls who feel that support. Only 36% of the cohort also reported feeling support from their mother compared to the 74% of younger teenage girls who feel that way. In general, only 32% of young adult women believe their parents even understand them. Just 33%, said they feel valued by older adults.
According to the report, 40% of Gen Z women agree that “older people don’t seem to understand the pressure my generation is under.”
“If we want to see change in Gen Z women’s spiritual trajectories, relationships are the place to start,” Daniel Copeland, Barna’s vice president of research, said. “Faith is a skill that must be modeled first, and strong, supportive relationships can bridge the gap between doubt and belief.”
Other Barna studies have shown that since the COVID-19 pandemic, men are starting to outpace women in other key spiritual indicators, such as church attendance. As part of its ongoing State of the Church initiative, Barna reported earlier this month that 43% of men reported attending church weekly, compared with 36% of women.
The gap in church attendance between men and women is the largest ever recorded by Barna since they began tracking the trend decades ago, marking a reversal of decades-long trends that saw women outpacing men in church attendance by a wide margin.
Same population that reports almost 50% “mental health” issues. They seek meaning by going to a therapist instead of a church. Trouble is, most therapists these days are crazy women, just like their patients.
Yup. I’m pretty sure that most therapists make people worse, not better.
If you look at the stats mental health diagnoses among young women started to skyrocket around 2010. At the same time left leaning political views also skyrocketed among them, such that the two are virtually indistinguishable phenomena.
The Obama Effect.
Compare to
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-religious-identity/
Been there, done that, praise the Lord!
Exactly.
Word for the day: Reification
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/reification
People were told to reject objective reality. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Believe things that are blatantly untrue. And, after that, they started voting Democrat and seeking treatment for mental illness. At this point, it seems like an incurable condition.
Well…their parents have no faith either
How is a preschooler supposed to develop a relationship with God when there is no God in the house
I was at a funeral mass recently. Bunch of Catholics. No one goes to church. The officiant had to talk them through everything
And their parents didn’t bring them to church. And or they dropped out of church once they got to college
Their kids might have received the sacraments but they don’t attend services nor have any interior life
What they forget is that when they go to meet the Lord they will be judged as Catholic
They think they will have time. Or they believe they know better than God. Or they believe they’ll get in on a mob rule plan. That they’ll sneak past carrying a protest sign
Doesn’t work that way
Men are not as easily fooled by the Communist Pagan Cult.
That’s pretty much what I see as well. I taught a scripture class for 11-12 year olds. One year, I asked the kids to have their parents help them learn a short prayer. I got called on the carpet for that, never ask parents to do anything or they’ll stop their kids from coming to class. One parent confronted me and told me that she didn’t have time to do anything and her kid wouldn’t even be there if the grandparents hadn’t insisted.
I consider this this the natural outcome of the “working” mother. It’s the foundation of this road to extinction.
That number seems low since 90% of women have all the answers.
“older people don’t seem to understand the pressure my generation is under.”
Fat, ugly, tattooed, a pierced septum and being a dumbass is no way to go through life. They don’t have to worry about getting drafted and their getting asses shot off in a foreign land either.
My wife’s niece is a therapist. She is as neurotic as they come.
In 1972 My Psychology class was polled in college, in Texas. No one knew how anyone else voted.
Almost half the class of about 80 were atheists over 50 years ago.
I hope every one of them dies children, so we can rid the gene pool of their failed genes.
And that’s not even counting the “religious not spiritual” cohort — ninnies who believe in something supernatural but don’t like church.
No need for god as these women will end up with cats.
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