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Who Owns a Woman's Body? | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Connection]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Wednesday, January 23, 2019 [The Top Reasons Young People Drop Out of Church]( [The Top Reasons Young People Drop Out of Church]( Even with 1 in 4 leaving over politics, college kids are more likely to return after a hiatus than leave for good. Griffin Paul Jackson Slightly fewer young adults are dropping out of church after high school, but those who do have more serious reasons for leaving than a decade ago. In a 2017 [LifeWay Research survey]( released today, 66 percent of Americans between 23 and 30 years old said they stopped attending church on a regular basis for at least a year after turning 18, compared to 70 percent in 2007. Most young churchgoers skip out on Sundays at some point amid their transition to going to college, moving away from home, or starting ... 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