Just a brief note for now, you mention that where religion decays then family life goes with it. Have you come across Eberstadt’s How the West Really Lost God? She addresses precisely this relationship between family and faith, that the decline of family equally contributes to the decline of faith; hence a death spiral can easily result.
I am familiar with Eberstadt's argument and agree with it. However, the inverse is true as well. Secular people just have no incentive to raise children.
Just a brief note for now, you mention that where religion decays then family life goes with it. Have you come across Eberstadt’s How the West Really Lost God? She addresses precisely this relationship between family and faith, that the decline of family equally contributes to the decline of faith; hence a death spiral can easily result.
I am familiar with Eberstadt's argument and agree with it. However, the inverse is true as well. Secular people just have no incentive to raise children.