re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Keep in mind that this refers to marriages and not to couples who live together unmarried and then separate.

And I do suppose that professed Christians are more likely to marry before commencing cohabitation [and] procreation.

Not so. The abortion rate is lowest amongst atheists. The teen pregnancy rate is highest in the so-called Bible Belt states.

Unmarried couples are mentioned in the survey as well, though “divorce” does not really apply (since they were never married). While unmarried couples can be a committed relationship without “the piece of paper,” that same paper (particularly in regard to a religious wedding) is supposed to be a public commitment of a lifetime partnership.

The non-religious have no such view of lifetime religious commitment, yet show up amongst the lowest divorce rates. I don’t have any evidence for the claim of minority religions such as Hinduism and Islam having low divorce rates other than the strictures of their religious views or outright fear of being cast out by their families and friends.