“How decades of divorce helped erode religion” (Washington Post) is kind of interesting for those interested in statistics and/or the evolution of American society away from two-parent households for children:
People whose parents divorced when they were children are significantly more likely to grow up not to be religious as adults, the study found. Thirty-five percent of the children of divorced parents told pollsters they are now nonreligious, compared with 23 percent of people whose parents were married when they were children.
A link from the article points out that Americans who don’t identify with any religion are reliable voters for Democrats. Thus the Democrats could ensure long-term national political dominance by adjusting state law to make divorce more lucrative (the more cash that can be obtained from a divorce lawsuit, the more likely a plaintiff is to file one).
The cited study may be limited going forward because it doesn’t seem to account for the modern-day trend of family court litigation between people who were never married to begin with.
It makes sense that children from broken homes have less belief in God, since so much of children’s ideas about God are extrapolations from their relationships with their parents. How could a ‘heavenly father’ when Mom and Dad don’t even get along/come around, etc…