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From 2005 to 2025, the number of adults reading for pleasure dropped by 40% | University of Florida
From 2010 to 2020, the religion of Islam grew more than any other religion, increasing 20.7%, while Christianity only increased by 5.7% | Pew Research
More than 330,000 children are in the U.S. foster care system, and 21% of them await permanent adoption | National Council for Adoption
On average, young boys are exposed to pornography at age 10 or 11; and by age 16, 70% of them watch it 4-5 times per week | National Library of Medicine
GenZ and Millennial churchgoers are leading the way in attendance, averaging 1.9 and 1.8 Sundays a month, respectively. The average of older generations is 1.6 Sundays a month | Barna
In the early 2000s, 21% of adults got together on a daily basis with friends. In the 2020s, that number shrunk to 12% | The Atlantic
Among GenZs who have investments, 52% of them have redirected that money toward sports gambling in the past year | Investment News
Last year, 61% of pastors used AI to write sermons, and 91% of church leaders as a whole supported its use in their work | PR Newswire
As of 2026, 63% of U.S. adults do not see physician-assisted death as morally wrong; among the religiously affiliated, the number is 54% | Pew Research
68% of U.S. adults believe that psychedelics are addictive, and 60% believe they are harmful to health. However, 82% of U.S. addiction specialists said the controlled, therapeutic use of psychedelics shows promise in helping heal psychiatric disorders | Psychedelic Alpha
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