Pew Research found that 82% of married LDS members have a spouse who is also LDS — the second-highest in-faith marriage rate of any American religious group, behind only Hindus at 91%.
This matters because LDS interfaith marriages carry a 40% divorce rate within five years, while same-faith LDS marriages sit in the low 20s%. The community's pattern of marrying within the faith is one of the factors behind LDS having the lowest divorce rate of any Christian denomination.
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