<i>“I Want Them to Question. I Just Didn’t Want Them to Question the Faith!”</i> : Parents’ Experiences of an Adult Child’s Religious Deconversion From a Protestant Christian Evangelical Tradition
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Abstract
In religious change research, a focus on individuals leaving religion has yielded a rich understanding of the reasons for and trajectories of “deconversion.” Though links between religion and family are well-established in the literature, parents’ perspectives and accounting of a child’s religious change have largely been overlooked. To address this gap, an interpretive qualitative approach was utilized to generate a thematic description of 21 parents’ experiences of a child’s deconversion from the family’s Protestant Christian evangelical tradition. Parents’ accounts reflected diverse interpretations, impacts, reactions to, and attributions of an adult child’s religious change. Intentional and relationally affirming responses to a child’s deconversion depart from how highly committed religious parents are often represented in the literature. Parents’ accounts of the unintended consequences of upholding “faith keeping” responsibilities challenge the understanding and efficacy of religious transmission pathways reinforced in family and religion research.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".