Successful Parents Have an Authoritarian but Warm Parenting Style

Dr. Christian Smith has written a new book titled Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation. It's based on new research about how parents successfully raise children to become religiously-practicing adults.

In this episode, Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt walk through his findings and discuss what actually helps our kids to retain their faith into young adulthood.

A listener asks, how do we know which religion is right, Catholicism or Protestantism?

• Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation by Christian Smith
• "Keeping the Faith" by Christian Smith (First Things)
• Return: How to Draw Your Child Back to the Church by Brandon Vogt

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