Here’s why people abandoned church and the right way to fix it
Fox News
The flight of resident fatherhood from the home over the past 60 years may offer the best explanation for the collapse of Christianity in the U.S. over much of the last 40 years.
J.P. Degance is president of Communio, a nonprofit that works with churches to strengthen marriage.
Now, it turns out these warm childhood memories of my dad may have much more to do with influencing my adult Christian faith than I had previously thought.
You see, the flight of resident fatherhood from the home over the past 60 years, according to Communio’s Nationwide Study on Faith and Relationships, may offer the best explanation for the collapse of Christianity in the United States over much of the last 40 years. The study concludes that religious nonaffiliation is unlikely to stabilize until 25-30 years after married fatherhood stabilizes.