Huffpost Divorce The Blog   Lee Block Headshot  Who Gets The
Religion?  Posted: Updated:  Divorce comes in many shapes and
sizes. Just read all the articles on this site and you can see
that everyone has their own experiences and issues with divorce.
One thing that can be a big issue in divorce is who gets the
religion.  If you and your spouse came from two different
religions when you got married, chances are you picked one and
that was how you raised your children. If you are lucky then
there was a compromise and you met somewhere in the middle. If
you are even luckier, you each enjoyed your own religion
separately with no conflict.  According to the Barna Research
Group, who did a study in 1999, the rates of divorce were the
highest for Jews at 30% and the lowest for Atheists and
Agnostics at 21%, and these were couples that shared the same
religion.  Vera Lawlor, from The Bergen Record in Hakensack,
NJ., wrote that inter-faith marriages have a failure rate that
is 50% higher than same-faith marriages. She