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No, not quite. Those stats leave out one very important factor--how many atheists even bother to get married at all? I'll bet if this chart included atheists who are in 'committed relationships', the stats would be dramatically different.

And, as with most of these types of surveys, it doesn't attempt to separate out those who are committed to their Faith from the RINO (religion in name only) types.

Even so, if 79% of Catholic marriages stay together, I'd say that's a much better trend than what we see in society at large these days.

Nope..

Quote "It just stands to reason that the bond of religion is protective of marriage, and I believe it is." But Mr. Barna's numbers appear to say something otherwise about some of the country's most fervent Christians. His letter addressed those Christians' most common defenses, point by point, and the cross-tabulations of his study responded to many of the scholarly objections. He rejected the idea that large numbers of divorced Christians left their marriages before they converted. He also found no reason in his 3,854-person national survey to believe that large numbers of Christian marriages broke up because the Christian partner was "unequally yoked" with a non-Christian. He doesn't buy that Christians divorced more often because they married their romantic partners rather than merely living with them. He doesn't have co-habitation data, but, Mr. Barna said, "of more than 70 other moral behaviors we study, when we compare Christians to non-Christians we rarely find substantial differences and we have no reason to believe co-habitation would veer from that pattern."

And, as with most of these types of surveys, it doesn't attempt to separate out those who are committed to their Faith from the RINO (religion in name only) types.

I'm hearing bagpipes

but no, in all Barna surveys (Barna is an Evangelical Christian polling group BTW)the pollster first determines the religiousness of the person they are polling by asking specific questions

Those stats leave out one very important factor--how many atheists even bother to get married at all?

Lots. Back of the envelope, about 80% of the atheists I know (and being where I am, I know many) are married. However, less than half of those have children, though a few of those have several children.

As a general observation, their marriages seem to do pretty well actually, though most took at least a few years before getting married in the first place.