Religion in ChildHOOD Development

How does religion alter child development? Well, there's several studies of how religion can make you smarter in different age groups. I gathered research from 2019-2021 and compared it to school children in religious (primarily christian) families tend to have enhanced social and psychological skills, but may perform at a lower level academically compared to non-religious children. Among religious kindergartners, they perform at higher academic levels than non religious kindergartners. But religious third graders do not perform as well academically as non- religious third graders.

The purpose of my project is to find connections in academic and social levels of a child's developing brain to religion. I'm hoping that if i can find the data, the different levels to many different religions, and how another religion could change the expansion of these young minds and potentially bring more people to church! Plus, history repeats itself. So if this is the case, which it is, then we know for the future what happensin the development of religious children versus non-religious children.