Study suggests women who leave church more likely to suffer mental illness
A new study has suggested that women who stop attending church are three times more likely to suffer from anxiety or alcohol dependency than women who keep their faith continually.
By contrast the study suggested that men who became less religious did not suffer from mental illness more than those who kept their faith.
The lead study author, Dr Joanna Maselko, of Temple University, Philadelphia said that women experienced problems as a result of losing interest in religion because it was more likely to mean they lose friends and social contacts as well....