Children JW Rejection Statistics

AggieNostic

I am wondering if my family is similar to yours... I have 2 sisters and 1 brother. My older sister and I were 5 and 7 years old when my parents joined. My other sister and brother were "born in". But pretty much you can say we were all raised in the "truth"...

My 2 sisters are both DF'd. I am in Fadeland - neither DF nor DA, but viewed by the hundreds in this circuit as such... So only my brother is still in.

So, we have a 75% rejection rate - also note our ages are 32 - 45.

How does this compare with your sibling rejection rate? Could this be a trend as the JW generation that were born in the 60s/70s see their children start to become teenagers/young adults and realize this religion does not make sense?

parakeet

I have four other sibs. Three (plus me) have left; one remains. We all left in our early to mid-twenties.

Growing up had everything to do with our leaving. You don't question your parents' beliefs when you're nine.

Aussie Oz

5 of us, two girls 3 boys. None in. I was last out.

3 of us went thru the seventies as teens, two born in the late 70s faded. I was the only who left while still believing i think.

thats 100%!

Oz

finallysomepride

5 of us boys 44-58

#1 Out DA'd

#2 Faded once for many years now goes back only to keep wife happy (I believe)

#3 Elder takes it to seriously always has

#4 Never fully believed, faded, not been back 7 years & not going to. That's me..will DA soon

#5 Always been in, but only out of habit, very weak.

So thats

2/5 out completely

2/5 I believe could drop it if they were shown the real story.

1/5 in it realy strong, he has wife with dibilitating illness & looking forward to new order, probably will never accept the real truth.

finallysomepride

Aussie Oz

I like that 100% I wish I could say the same, my relationhip with my family would be so different

Black Sheep

My parents only had the one. Broken condom. Armageddon was really close. Mum must have been wetting her pants.

That makes 100% for their family.

My family has one in and one drifted semi-believer, too clever to go back in, too stupid to get right out. At this stage it is 50%.

Cheers

Chris

Ilovebirthdays

Statistics like these really bum me out, because I seem to come from an atypical family. I never really believed that Pew survey (until I found ex-JW boards) saying they had about a 1/3 retention rate, because I see so many stay.

I'm the only one that left of my siblings, so 33.3%. I'm the only one of the five grandchildren on my mother's side to leave, so 20% there. There's 2 of us out of 12 grandchildren on my father's side that left, so 17% there. And out of everyone I grew up with in the congregation, I know for a fact that about 90% of them are still in, and it isn't that the other 10% are definitely out, I just can't tell you for a fact if they're in or out. The only 2 I knew who left were both teenagers when their moms started studying, the dads never came, and they were never baptized, so I don't think you can really count them as JW's. I'm talking about people mostly aged in their mid-30's.

palmtree67

There's 5 of us, 3 girls and 2 boys, 35-43 years old:

#1 - currently DF'ed (That's me.......)

#2 - didn't take it seriously til he was in his 20's, now an elder

#3 - was df'ed, now reinstated. She should've been df'ed about 4 or 5 times, tho......currently barely in.

#4 - Super ambitious in the Org. Made an elder at a young age, went to his head and he hasn't had anything to do with the rest of us for about 10 years.

#5 - was df'ed, now reinstated but is about 8 years into a successful fade.....

Elsewhere

I have heard that about 60% of those raised as JWs end up leaving.

I'm looking for a reference to a reputable study that produced this number.

elder-schmelder

Me - fading (32 years old)

Brother - DF'd (26 years old)

Sister - dont attend but still believes (30 years old)

elder-schmelder

Children JW Rejection Statistics

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