“…Besides the high prevalence of interaction between partners, both spouses must agree upon childrearing practices, which become more difficult when the partners hold different beliefs (Sherkat, 2004, p. 610). Therefore, it is little surprise that value dissimilarity in the form of religious dissimilarity leads to lower levels of marital satisfaction, higher rates of divorce, and greater spousal conflict (Ellison, Bartkowski, & Anderson, 1999;Heaton & Pratt, 1990;Lehrer & Chiswick, 1993;Maneker & Rankin, 1993;Shramm et al, 2012;Vaaler et al, 2009). In the context of this study, the matching hypothesis would predict that religious similarity leads to lower rates of marital dissolution.…”