Woods et al

“other things being equal, children born to Protestant mothers are significantly more likely to survive the risks of childhood compared to children born to Catholic mothers.”¹

possible reasons (1) change in male behaviour and gender relations (2) social network.²

“the greater survival advantage among historical Protestants compared to Pentecostals may be the result of a number of factors, including the timing of religious conversion”³

“the absence of Pentecostal moral strictures may account for the observation...that there is no statistically significant relationship between membership in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and child mortality.”⁴

1CH Wood, P Williams K Chijiwa, “Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46:3 (2007), 405–416, 405.

2CH Wood, P Williams K Chijiwa, “Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46:3 (2007), 405–416, 406–407.

3CH Wood, P Williams K Chijiwa, “Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46:3 (2007), 405–416, 412.

4CH Wood, P Williams K Chijiwa, “Protestantism and Child Mortality in Northeast Brazil, 2000” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46:3 (2007), 405–416, 412.