ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which the parents of Ins differ from the parents of Outs. It shows the major association between parents’ Catholicism and the current status of their children. When looking at In exceptions to the general association, the authors saw how their experience of Catholicism or their present position with respect to it differed from that of other Ins. There is little difference between the Out exceptions and other Outs, however, in their experience of Catholicism or their present position with respect to it, at least as far as can be told by inspecting several key measures. Rather simple concepts of identification with parental standards and cognitive consistency between self and parent can explain the major association between parents’ Catholicism and the present status of their offspring. They can also account for the relation between the expression of basic antipathy toward a parent and the subject’s current status.
