I found this excerpt contained in the chapter addressed to leaders from It Starts at Home to be truly fascinating:
In a recent Policy Review essay, “How the West Really Lost God,” the Hoover Institute’s Mary Eberstadt demonstrated how a society that moves away from the priority of family also moves further away from God. “Something about the family inclines people toward religiosity,” Eberstadt wrote. She showed that in Western Europe an unprecedented family shrinkage (due to a decline in marriage and parenthood) “appeared sometimes before and sometimes in tandem with the unprecedented decline in belief.” In light of this historical precedence, Eberstadt suggested, motherhood and father should be seen to strengthen spiritual commitment because they are “the human symphony through which God has historically been heard by many people” and they are the means “through which people derive their deepest opinions and impressions of life.”
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