* Only 56 percent of children of divorce say they attended religious services every week or almost every week when they were growing up, compared to 74 percent of young people from intact families.

* Of those children of divorce who regularly attended a place of worship, 2/3 said no one from the clergy or congregation reached out to them when their parents split up; only 1/4 said that someone at church did reach out.

* As young adults, 68 percent of young people from intact families say they are "very" or "fairly" religious, compared to 55 percent of young people from divorced families. Further, 63 percent of young people from intact families, compared to 49 percent of children of divorce, say they are currently a member at a house of worship.

* More than 37 percent of children of divorce agree with the statement, "Religion doesn't seem to address the important issues in my life," compared to 29 percent of people from intact families. Almost half of children of divorce (46 percent) agree, "I believe I can find ultimate truth without help from a religion," compared to 36 percent of their peers from intact families.

* If children of divorce are religious they are more likely to be evangelical. In the survey, 41 percent of young people from divorced families describe themselves as born again or evangelical, compared to 37 percent of their peers from intact families.

* Children of divorce are more likely to say that their relationship with God is an outgrowth of lacking a loving father or parent when they were growing up, with 38 percent of them agreeing (compared to 22 percent from intact families), "I think of God as the loving father or parent I never had in real life."

- Source: Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce