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John Bartkowski from Mississippi State University researched 16,000 children to see how religion affects children while growing up. Apparently, parents that both regularly attend religious services and discussed religion with their children were rated as having children that had better self control, social skills and learning approaches than children of non-religious parents. However, if parents argued about religion the children were more likely to have problems (not surprising). John himself points out some problems with his study and that it may be possible that parents who raise well behaved children tend to be in religious congregations (invalidating his study).

Read the article from Live Science here.