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It's not like the religious and non-religious communities reproduce solely by having kids - this trend is driven by religious parents having non-religious child
by PeterisP 5y ago
It's not like the religious and non-religious communities reproduce solely by having kids - this trend is driven by religious parents having non-religious children, and also there's the opposite phenomenon; IMHO the choices the teenagers and young adults make far outweigh any difference in fertility rates.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoIf the father is practicing, it’s something like 80% of the kids will. What we are experiencing now might be a second order blip due to WW1&2 wiping out so many fathers.
- philipkglass 5y agoSwitzerland has seen a similar rise of the unaffiliated and it never suffered mass casualties from the World Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Switzerland#Census_data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Switzerland#Census... If it's 80% retention per generation, there's no fatherless-blip needed to explain the decline since WW II. 0.8 * 0.8 * 0.8 = 51.2% retention after three generations.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoOne must account for the recent phenomena that religious fathers have far more children.
- QuarterReptile 5y agoI have to think that the WW1/2 connection is a stretch (would be interested to hear more), but for anyone sceptical about the continuity of the high attendance following fathers' attendance, an article on the subject based on some survey data from the 90s: https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-05-024-v https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=16-05-...