Family Scholars Issue Call to Churches to Confront Spiritual Impact of Family Breakdown on Children
New Findings Reveal Children Raised in “Good” Divorces Far Less Likely to Be Religious Attenders, More Disinterested in Religion, Compared to Those Raised in Happy Marriages
Future Health of Churches, Scholars Say, Depends on Getting Ministries to Those from Non-Traditional Families RightNEW YORK, NY—January 16, 2013, 12:01 a.m.—A new report from family scholars, based on thirteen commissioned papers from some of the nation’s top scholars on religion and family, reveals that amid decades of widespread divorce and family change America’s churches have given strikingly little attention to