Religious Affliation and Divorce in the U.S.

美国的宗教信仰和离婚

• 批准号: 0920228
• 负责人: Jennifer Glass
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0920228&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Religious; Affliation; Divorce; U.S.

The goal of this research is to explain why states with larger proportions of religious conservatives have higher divorce rates than states with lower proportions of religious conservatives. This project will examine whether the earlier ages at marriage and first birth observed among religious conservatives contribute to this paradox, while attending to other plausible explanations. These include higher rates of marriage itself in religiously conservative states, and lower proportions of single or cohabiting adults whose relationship breakups are never counted. Higher rates of crime and other social problems associated with economic decline produce may also produce both higher divorce rates and greater popularity of conservative churches. To investigate regional variation in divorce, county-level demographic information from all 50 states will be combined from a variety of public data sources, including the U.S. Census and county court records on marital dissolutions. Statistical models will assess whether the proportion of religious conservatives in a county affects the incidence of divorce and, if so, how this influence occurs. Divorce has attracted the attention of policymakers and scholars because of its negative consequences for the health and economic well-being of single parents and their children. The growth of conservative religious denominations and their concentration in particular geographic regions represent an opportunity to understand how community norms regarding sexuality, birth control and abortion, as well as efforts to restrict sexual activity to marriage, might affect both the popularity of marriage and future divorce risk. Understanding how religious beliefs can both encourage marriage and weaken its stability can help inform policies designed to strengthen marriage.

这项研究的目的是解释为什么拥有宗教保守派比例较大的州比宗教保守派比例较低的州具有更高的离婚率。该项目将研究婚姻中的较早年龄和宗教保守主义者在宗教保守主义者中是否促成了这种悖论，同时还要处理其他合理的解释。这些包括较高的婚姻率本身在宗教保守的国家中，以及从未计算过关系破裂的单身或同居成年人的比例较低。与经济下降相关的犯罪率和其他社会问题的较高，也可能会产生更高的离婚率和保守教会​​的更大流行。为了调查离婚区域差异，所有50个州的县级人口统计信息将从各种公共数据源中合并，包括美国人口普查和县法院关于婚姻解散的记录。统计模型将评估一个县中宗教保守派的比例是否会影响离婚的发生，如果是的，这种影响是如何发生的。离婚引起了决策者和学者的注意，因为它对单亲父母及其子女的健康和经济福祉产生了负面影响。保守的宗教教派的增长及其在特别地理区域的集中度是一个机会，可以理解有关性，节育和堕胎的社区规范如何影响婚姻的性行为，并可能影响婚姻的普及和未来的离婚风险。了解宗教信仰如何鼓励婚姻并削弱其稳定性可以帮助旨在加强婚姻的政策。