Rising Out of Poverty (32) \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The National Longitudinal Study of Youth tracked 12,686 American young people, beginning in 1979. \u00a0It found that children whose families attended church weekly in 1979 and 1982 grew up to have an average per-family income of $37,000 by 1993. \u00a0Those children whose families never attended church services in 1979 and 1982, by contrast, grew up to have an average per-family income of only $24,361 \u2014 fully $12,639 lower \u2014 in 1993. \u00a0This result held regardless of whether the family in question was intact or broken. \u00a0[U. S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, \u201cThe National Longitudinal Study of Youth,\u201d analysis by Heritage Foundation analyst Christine Olson]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Feel free to include any or all of these items in your Christopher Hitchens Memorial \u201cHow Religion Poisons Everything\u201d File<\/em>. \u00a0There will be no charge.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 I continue to share my notes from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004). \u00a0Here are some additional examples of the good things that might come to you and your family if you regularly attend religious services: \u00a0 More Happiness and Excitement in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3199,4735,11509,4949,11510,2412,6546,5045,743,401,9967],"class_list":["post-85081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attendance","tag-church","tag-excitement","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-health","tag-poor","tag-poverty","tag-religion","tag-theism","tag-well-being"],"yoast_head":"\n
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