God's norm: life-long marriage between male and female with children or single and continent, vs. contraception, fornications, single and fatherless children, welfare.... US Stats:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:..And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26, 28)

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Matthew 19:4-6)

...I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. (1 Corinthians 7:7)

In 2011-2015, among American women ages 15 to 44, 45% had not had any children; 20% had two children; 17% had one child; 18% had three or more children. Between 2007 and 2020, the total fertility rate (TFR) in the United States declined from 2.12 to 1.64... During the 1960s and 1970s, postponement of childbearing resulted in a steep drop in the birth rate among American women ages 20 to 24. After 1975, U.S. birth rates [somewhat] rose for women in their 30s, as older mothers had the children they had postponed earlier in life. Today, U.S. birth rates are highest for women in the age groups of 25 to 29 and 30 to 34
" width="200" height="350" alt=" " border="1"> Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.
In the United States, fertility rates have fallen since 1990 among all major racial/ethnic groups, declining fastest among African Americans and Latinas. - https://www.prb.org/resources/why-is-the-u-s-birth-rate-declining/ © 2023 PRB. All Rights Reserved
May 28, 2021 — Among sexually active women who were not seeking pregnancy, 88% were using a contraceptive method in 2016, and this proportion has remained steady since 2002.
>99% of sexually experienced U.S. women aged 15–44 have used at least one contraceptive method as of 2008 ... and this proportion has remained steady since 2002. Almost all women who identify as religious have ever used contraceptive methods—99% of mainline Protestants, evangelical Protestants and Catholics, and 96% of people with other religious affiliations.7 Sexually active couples who do not use any method of contraception have approximately an 85% chance of experiencing a pregnancy over the course of a year - https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states
In 2015–2017, 64.9% of the 72.2 million women aged 15–49 in the United States were currently using contraception. The most common contraceptive methods currently used were female sterilization (18.6%), oral contraceptive pill (12.6%), long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) (10.3%), and male condom (8.7%). - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db327.htm
Of all live births in the United States during 2018-2020 (average), 23.7% were Hispanic, 52.1% were white, 15.2% were black, 0.8% were American Indian/Alaska Native and 6.8% were Asian/Pacific Islander. - https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/data?reg=99&top=2&stop=10&lev=1&slev=4&obj=3
Jan 9, 2023: General Single Parent Households Statistics. According to a Pew Research study, the United States has the highest number of children living in single parent households. In contrast, countries like Mali, Afghanistan, Turkey, Vietnam, and Japan recorded only single-digit percentages in single parent households. - https://financesonline.com/single-parent-statistics/
Jun 17, 202: Data from the United States Census Bureau shows that nearly 18.5 million children grow up without their fathers, which has in return led to the United States owning the title of the world's leader in fatherlessness.2 - https://owens.house.gov/posts/fox-news-americas-crisis-is-a-lack-of-fathers
.Aug 8, 2018: Recent estimates show that about 40 percent of births in the United States occur outside of marriage, up from 28 percent in 1990 (Child Trends, 2016)
Aug 2, 2022 — Births to Unmarried Women: Two in five (41%) births were to unmarried mothers in 2020. - https://datacenter.kidscount.org/updates/show/300-births-drop
Today, only about 64 percent of children live in homes with two parents who are married, representing an all-time low (Pew Research Center). Trend data shows a stark and steady decline since 1960, when nearly 88 percent of children lived with married parents. - https://gillespieshields.com/40-facts-two-parent-families/
Mar 12, 2022: About 4 out 10 children were born to unwed mothers. Of single parent families with children under the age of 18, 80 percent were headed by single mothers. Around half (52.3%) of single mothers have never married, almost a third (29.3%) are divorced, 18.4% are either separated or widowed. Half have one child, 30% have two. About two thirds are White, one third Black - https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/
Another 2021 study looking at the living arrangements of parents with children at home indicates that just over 50% of single parents have never married. - https://psychcentral.com/relationships/finding-love-as-a-single-mom
In the United States today, nearly 24 million children live in a single-parent family. This total, which has been rising for half a century, covers about one in every three kids across America - https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families
An estimated 24.7 million children (33%) live absent their biological father. - https://fathers.com/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/
2012: 57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers. - https://fathers.com/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/
Data from 2019 indicates that: Black and American Indian kids are most likely to live in a single-parent families (64% of Black children and 52% of American Indian children fit this demographic). - https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families
Mississippi 55.8%; Louisiana 54.5%; New Mexico 53.2%; Nevada 48.8%; Alabama 48.4%; Delaware 48.1%; Florida; 47.2% are the leading states for unmarried parents - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/unmarried/unmarried.htm
The average dad is now 30.9 years old at their child's birth. - https://www.science.org/content/article/average-age-new-us-dads-has-passed-30
As reported by the Center for Children and Families: [u, 2009-2011] 40% of all live births in the US are to single mothers. ➲ 90% of welfare recipients are single mothers - https://post.ca.gov/portals/0/post_docs/publications/Building%20a%20Career%20Pipeline%20Documents/safe_harbor.pdf

2012: 57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers. - https://fathers.com/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/ These figures are over a decade old. I would warrant that figure for white children is 23-24%

The dates are listed for a reason, as are others which attest:

Mar 12, 2022: Of single parent families with children under the age of 18, 80 percent were headed by single mothers. About 4 out 10 children were born to unwed mothers. Of single parent families with children under the age of 18, 80 percent were headed by single mothers. Around half (52.3%) of single mothers have never married, almost a third (29.3%) are divorced, 18.4% are either separated or widowed. Half have one child, 30% have two. About two thirds are White, one third Black - https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/

Data from 2019 indicates that: Black and American Indian kids are most likely to live in a single-parent families (64% of Black children and 52% of American Indian children fit this demographic). - https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-well-being-in-single-parent-families

And to add to the https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race-and-ethnicity#detailed/1/any/false/2048,1729,37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431 stat here,

2021: Of children in single-parent families 24% were Non-Hispanic White, 64% were Black or African American, 16% were Asian and Pacific Islander - https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-single-parent-families-by-race-and-ethnicity#detailed/1/any/false/2048,1729,37,871,870,573,869,36,868,867/10,11,9,12,1,185,13/432,431

except you’ve set up a false dichotomy, by linking God and theism with the happy group, and by implication atheism and disbelief with the errant group... it’s perectly possible and likely that atheists can be married and emjoy the positive benefits of the first cohort, and likewise perfectly possible and likely that many in the second bunch, if asked, would identify as believers...

Yes, but the link btwn God and theism with morality overall and marriage with children, vs. atheism with liberal immorality and with no children, is warranted.

Bible itself teaches that God gave man an innate sense of morality of conscience, which is essentially correspondent with the basic law of God, (Romans 2:14) and thus atheists, like as any broad class of persons, can have a sense of morality.

In fact, that is partly why they dare to charge God with injustice as they ignorantly rail against Him. (As if He was not omniscient and omnipotent, knowing all the effects and effects of effects of all He does, and all actions/inactions of man and nature, not simply in this life but for eternity. And can and will ultimately make all work out for what is Good, with judicial justice as well as mercy and grace. Which is what ultimately determines what is evil and good.)

However, the problem is that conscience gets defiled, and apart from a sure supreme transcendent moral standard, then souls have nothing one can hold them to, even to interpret, and right and wrong is whatever each one, and each atheist, decides.

I have debated atheists who, in their reasoning, vehemently insisted Hitler was a Christian (since they decide what a Christian is), and some advocate the state removing children from creationist parents (just for beginners).

And consistent with man having a nature prone to sin, which to varying degrees rejects God’s moral laws, contrary to Christ, then not only can both good as well as terrible things be done under the premise of religious justification, but under atheism as well.

Yet atheists are overwhelmingly liberal in social views, though a relative few atheists oppose abortion, fornication, pornography, vulgarity, etc.

Relevant stats:

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83% says right or wrong depends upon the situation [though sometimes it does] but only 16% affirm there are clear standards for morality;
97% look to common sense, or science or philosophy/reason for moral guidance;
94% say homosexuality should be accepted;
92% favor homosexual marriage;
87% support abortion being legal in all or most cases; ;
78% are non-parents of children under 18;
10% ID as conservative; 15% are Republican.

Note also that religious persons and the more religious states overall tend to be the most charitable as regards a percentage of income.

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Footnotes

[1]

Religious Landscape Study

[2]

Statistics on U.S. Generosity

Re: Headline; I think you meant to use the term ‘contentment’ vs ‘continent’. Typo happen to us all.

Thanks for being gracious, and I ceertainly make lots of typos with my stiff fingers, but no, I actually meant to use that word, as denoting self-control, vs. incontinent, here as denoting the choice not to engage in sexual relations.

Etymology 2
From Middle English contynent, from Old French continent, from Latin continentem (“continuous; holding together”), present participle of continēre (“to contain”).
Adjective
continent (comparative more continent, superlative most continent)
Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex, urination and/or defecation.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous.
a continent fever
(obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Antonyms
incontinent - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/continent

It is what priests are as per the unscriptural RC church law of mandated clerical celibacy that was part of the accretions of unscriptural traditions .

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