how attending church lowers divorce rates

For years it has been reported that Christians divorce as much as non-Christians. Apparently the data this was based on has been re-examined and it was discovered that some major flaws in the research led to this conclusion. The major flaw was people calling themselves Christian but not being church attenders. A recent report on new research states ...
"In collecting data, Wilcox and Johnson examined the religious practices of people who called themselves Christians -- something previous studies had not always done. In particular, they checked rates of church attendance. Their findings were striking. Although church attendance is down, those who do attend, especially weekly, are less likely to divorce. Instead they are more likely to report that their marriages are happy. And regular church attenders reported being happier in general than those who did not attend regularly."
(see http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=17878)