Class in America: Want to Get Ahead? Try Church

From NBC (with video)

Attending religious services regularly can confer many things besides salvation. For generations in America, houses of worship were places where families built relationships with similar families, and where clergy could provide the kind of mentorship that helped working class kids step up the economic ladder.

These days, though, young people are less likely to say they belong to a religion than their parents were at the same age. And the gap is not just generational — it's also about class.

Social scientists are finding that in the last 40 years, teenagers whose parents are in the bottom third on the socioeconomic scale stopped coming to services twice as fast as kids from the top.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/class-america-want-get-ahead-try-church-n325796