Remarriage Timing: Does Religion Matter?

Abstract

Using pooled data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2006(NSFG -2010, we examine the effects of denominational affiliation, worship service attendance, and religious salience on remarriage timing. Survival analyses indicate that both men and women affiliated with conservative Protestant faith traditions are significantly more likely than their unaffiliated and Catholic counterparts to remarry at an accelerated pace following divorce. Results further show that, net of religious affiliation and socio-demographic characteristics, worship service attendance accelerates remarriage timing, whereas the effects of religious salience are weaker or unobserved. These results are largely consistent with prior research on denominational variations in the timing of first marriage and underscore the robust influence of religion on the institution of marriage.

Examining Average Age at First Marriage within Orthodox Judaism: A Large Community‐Based Study

“…Regarding future directions for this large community dataset, we intend to continue to conduct analyses to better understand the landscape of the marriage age phenomena that exist in the Orthodox Jewish community. One potential area to explore might be the timing of remarriage in the Orthodox Jewish community, determining if religion has a role in that timing and how that differs among subgroups of the community (Xu and Bartkowski 2017). Future planned analytic strategies will assess for generational cohort effects in the age a first marriage and will also utilize a mixed methods design to present the quantitative and qualitative data points in a publication to allow them to inform each other's findings.…”