What God Has Joined Together: Religion and the Risk of Divorce | Institute for Family Studies

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What God Has Joined Together: Religion and the Risk of Divorce | Institute for Family Studies

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Key Findings

• At the time of the study, the range of divorce rates among religious groups was from 37 percent for Catholics to 56 percent for black Protestants.

  • 37 percent (Catholics) to 56 percent (black Protestants)
  • 🟡 Strong Signal | survey

• People who attend religious services weekly are 15 percentage points less likely to have ever been divorced than those who rarely attend.

  • 15 percentage points less likely
  • 🟡 Strong Signal | survey

• The overall divorce rate for all respondents in the GSS 2010, 2012, and 2014 surveys was 45 percent.

  • 45 percent [2010]
  • 🟡 Strong Signal | survey

• The percentage of Americans who had ever divorced just about doubled from 24 percent to 45 percent over the 53-year span from 1972 to the time of the study.

  • doubled from 24 percent to 45 percent
  • 🟡 Strong Signal | survey

• In the 1970s, the range of divorce rates among religious groups was from 12 percent for Jews to 40 percent for black Protestants.

  • 12 percent (Jews) to 40 percent (black Protestants) [1970]
  • 🟡 Strong Signal | survey

Confidence Summary

Tier	Count	Description
🟢 Irrefutable	0	Meta-analyses, large RCTs, Cochrane reviews
🟡 Strong Signal	5	Multiple studies, large surveys
🟠 Hypothesis	0	Single study, small N, preliminary