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Getting children makes us more religious, researchers say

26-01-2023

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Getting children makes us more religious, researchers say

What makes people to form larger families? Is that the religiosity? Or is the family stimulating the religiosity? From research, it seems that the second is true. Photo ANP, Robin Utrecht

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It is a widespread idea that religious people have more children. But that is not true, researchers say. It is rather the other way around: having children makes you more religious.

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