I know that a well known MO Rabbi in Teaneck stated 50% of MO go otd. In my limited exp. I have seen where friends, influence, one shleps the other out. I saw this with one of the boys of my son and should have gotten involved earlier in the process. If I couldn’t say something I should have asked the Rav to help. His best friend’s father was very verbally abusive to him growing up, would chastize him about his davening in front of many. He became very anti frum, drugs, non Jewish girls, etc. My son got influenced but is as I said elsewhere at least a little bit back. Now these parents want our son to work some magic which i am not happy about, of course we are talking about people already in their 20’s so you can’t really control to the same extent. It’s sad but I do feel optimism. But in our community, most of the boys he grew up with are otd. I would say 60-70%, some I include as on even though they are only going to Shule on Fri night and Shabbos day only.
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