Some less-active members maintain good relations with and positive feelings toward the Church.
Young single adults are also more likely to become inactive than their married counterparts,[7] and overall, women tend to be more active than men.
[8] A 1998 study showed that a majority of less-active members return to church activity later in life.
[6] Further research has shown that "a completed mission correlates well with staying Mormon for the long term, even among people who were not very active in the LDS Church growing up.
In other words, eight in ten people who had been less active as kids were still Mormon in adulthood if they had served a full-term mission.