The book you're quoting uses the Bible as a primary resource... it's obvious where it's agenda lies :P
Surely you don't think children being raised in radical islam (forced to wear burkas at age 13 reguardless of their opinions on the matter) or are on the streetcorner with "God Hates Fags" and "Thank Heaven For Dead Soldiers" signs are better off than children who are being raised to believe in evolution?
Some studies may indeed show that religious families are more likely to be NUCLEAR families... but I'm of the belief that a 2 parent family is just as likely to screw up their kids as a single-parent one.
Studies also show that atheists and agnostics tend to be from the higher economic eschelons and have rather high levels of education compared to the uber-religious. They also show that there are nearly no athiests
in prison... prisoners are overwhelmingly religious. Aethists, oddly enough, also have the lowest divorce rate according to these studies. A great majority of scientists identify themselves as agnostic or aethiest...
But those studies appear on pro-atheism sites... just like this book comes from a conservative religious author who thinks parenting guides should be full of Bible quotes.
I choose to give equal amount of credence to all those studies: I find them vaguely interesting and then I ignore them entirely based on my own common sense and experience.
I was raised
without religion. I live in a country
without religion. I teach 1500 little
secular agnostics. And life goes on... this would seem to imply that religion can be entirely absent from the equation without catastrophic consequences.
That doesn't mean I don't think Religious people can raise their children.
But I'd appreciate religious people
not telling me I don't know how to raise mine.
Atheist Empire: Atheist Population Statistics http://atheistempire.com/reference/n...nchurched.html