Increases in children of record
27-May-09
So, in my continuing series on General Conference talks, this week I decided to combine the Sustaining of Church Officers, the Auditing report, and the Statistical report.
I always find the statistical reports interesting (of course I do!)
One thing that was interesting to me was the difference this year in the increase of children of record.
2005 (reported in April 2006): 93,150
2006: 94,006
2007: 93,698
2008 (reported this past conference): 123,502
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn’t belong…
So, for those of you who are unsure what exactly are children of record, I believe they are both births of members and under age 8 children of adults who are baptized.
So I’m not sure what is going on. There must have been some change in the way that this is being calculated. There’s no way this can be accounted for with just more babies. I see that I am not the first to wonder about this, but from my searching I did not find a definitive answer.
Any thoughts?