![]() ![]() Nearly two-thirds of religiously affiliated respondents with spouses who share their faith (64%) say shared religious beliefs are key to a successful marriage. By that metric, religion is seen as about as important for a successful marriage as is having an adequate income or having children, and it is considered less important than having shared interests, a satisfying sexual relationship or an equitable distribution of housework.Īmong married people, the survey finds big differences in the perceived importance of religion depending on the nature of one’s marriage. adults say shared religious beliefs are “very important” for a successful marriage. ![]() For a successful marriage, shared religious beliefs prized about as much as adequate income, less than sex and shared interests That is, being married to a religiously affiliated spouse seems to have little impact on the religiosity of religious “nones.” Just 13% of religious “nones” married to a religiously affiliated spouse are highly religious, which is only modestly higher than the 9% of “nones” married to fellow “nones” who are highly religious. In any case, while intermarriage is linked with lower rates of religious observance among those who are affiliated with a religion, there is little evidence that the relationship goes in the opposite direction for those who are religiously unaffiliated. Or it could be some combination of both factors. Alternatively, it could be that people who are not particularly religious to begin with are more likely to marry a spouse with a different religion. Marrying someone from a different faith might serve to make people less religious. Of course, it is impossible to know for sure the direction of the causal arrow in the relationship between religious observance and religious intermarriage. By comparison, only about half of Catholics married to non-Catholics are highly religious. Among Catholics married to other Catholics, for instance, seven-in-ten are highly religious, according to an index of key measures used to determine levels of religious observance in the Religious Landscape Study (including frequency of worship attendance, frequency of prayer, belief in God and self-described importance of religion in one’s own life). Religiously affiliated people in mixed marriages tend to be less religious than those who are married to spouses who share their religious identity. Religiously intermarried people are generally less religious than those married to spouse with same religion The remainder of this chapter explores attitudes about and experiences with religion in family life. Religiously affiliated parents married to spouses who share their faith also are more likely than intermarried parents to pray or read scripture with their children. The data also show that when parents attend religious services, they mostly do so with their children – especially if they are in a religiously matched marriage. There are, however, significant subsets of the population who place a higher priority on religion within marriage most people who are highly religious themselves say shared religious faith is critical to a good marriage, and women are much more likely than men to say the religion of a prospective spouse is likely to factor prominently in a decision about whether to get married. When asked about what kinds of things are important for a successful marriage, 44% of adults say shared religious beliefs are “very important.” By this metric, shared religion is seen as more important for a good marriage than shared political attitudes, but substantially less important than shared interests, good sex and a fair division of household labor. Religion does not, however, appear to be the source of much strife in mixed relationships while those in mixed marriages report somewhat higher levels of disagreement about religion, majorities nonetheless say religious disagreements are not common in their marriages. ![]() People in religiously mixed marriages also discuss religious matters with their spouses less frequently than those who are in religiously matched marriages. They attend religious services less often, pray less frequently, tend to be less likely to believe in God with absolute certainty and are less inclined to say religion is very important in their lives. Adults in religiously mixed marriages are, by and large, less religious than their counterparts who are married to spouses who share their faith. ![]()
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