Average adult worship attendance in the U.S. was 90 in 1999, down from 95 the year before. In 1992, the average was 102. Credit new church starts for spreading the faithful thinner. Don't blame megachurches, says researcher George Barna. Bible Belt marriages unbuckle.
Divorce rates are highest in the South.
After Nevada, evangelical-heavy states Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Oklahoma lead the nation with 6 or more divorces per 1000 people per year. Rates are lowest in the more-Catholic Northeast at fewer than 3 per 1000. National average is 4.2. One in four teens admitted gambling in some form last year. And one in ten teens said gambling had caused problems in his family.