I've done a few posts recently about fertility, so how about the next stage, parenthood? How do non-religious parents differ from religious ones?Here's a study by Bart Duriez, from the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium, which looks into just that. He quizzed over 900 secondary school students in Belgium about their religious attitudes and their parents approaches to parenting. He also asked
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November 20, 2009
Do atheists make better parents?
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July 27, 2009
Religious parents, atheist children and family strife
Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas, has been looking into how family harmony is affected when children adopt religious beliefs different from their parents'. You might know the name already - he's wrote a book a couple of years back: Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers.In his latest paper, he (along with grad student Charles Stokes) has analys
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