Where do you get this stuff? Most religious groups, Catholics included, don’t have a lower rate of divorce than the secular boogeypeople. Martial success is much more stratified by education and socioeconomic class than by religiosity.yeah but in the secular world, the next thing is divorce and blended families
You’re right. But having a thick skin doesn’t mean that the general attitude about kids in this day and age doesn’t make me sad.Being Catholic does bring on the need to have thick skin. But to the single never married woman without kids in her late 40s, my perspective is going to be different than the newly wed man
That’s true but the statistics from a variety of sources in the US show the divorce rate for Catholics who attend Mass weekly as a group on its own is significantly (around 20 percentage points lower than the overall divorce rate) and has the lowest rate of any group. There are some that show Protestants who rarely or never attend services have a rate higher than non-religious people but that’s within in the margin of error so it’s not significant. Religiosity as measured by attendance is relevant.Where do you get this stuff? Most religious groups, Catholics included, don’t have a lower rate of divorce than the secular boogeypeople. Martial success is much more stratified by education and socioeconomic class than by religiosity.
First of all, I was being sarcastic. I agree that people who attend church do NOT have a lower divorce rate. But people who actually want to practice their faith wouldn’t buy into the theory of the next best thingWhere do you get this stuff? Most religious groups, Catholics included, don’t have a lower rate of divorce than the secular boogeypeople. Martial success is much more stratified by education and socioeconomic class than by religiosity.
oh ok, I think I see your point nowYou’re right. But having a thick skin doesn’t mean that the general attitude about kids in this day and age doesn’t make me sad.
I’m trying to avoid derailing the thread but this is not the case. Regular attendance is associated with lower divorce rates. I suspect when a marriage is in crisis, there’s pressure to mend it (peer and personal beliefs) and there are resources more readily available. The ‘frequent’ talk about avoiding divorce and spotting signs of a marriage going south could also help.First of all, I was being sarcastic. I agree that people who attend church do NOT have a lower divorce rate. But people who actually want to practice their faith wouldn’t buy into the theory of the next best thing
But,Among Catholics who have ever been married, roughly one-third (34%) have experienced a divorce. …] nearly half of religiously unaffiliated Americans who have ever been married also have been divorced (49%), as have 55% of black Protestants and 45% of both white evangelical Protestants and white mainline Protestants.
pewforum.org/2015/09/02/chapter-3-family-matters/Catholics who report attending Mass on a weekly basis are less likely than those who attend less often to have experienced a divorce. Among Catholics who attend Mass weekly and who have ever been married, 28% have been divorced, compared with 38% who report attending Mass less often.