I know of the bible belt of course, I think you are more of the age of my children, who are now 48, 43 and 40 resp., and they had a non-religious education, we are not members of any church or religion, so no religious burden at all. Even I myself, more of the age of your parents Gerrit, although raised more or less as a roman catholic, have never felt religious, not one bit, and when it became possible to leave out one's original religion (I was baptized as a baby) at the local council office, I did that of course. My mum never was really religious, my dad was more or less, but mainly because of family, "what will so-and-so say when I don't go to church", things like that. My husband was raised a "Protestant", I think "gereformeerd", well, you can translate that to English, I've got no idea of the difference in the views of protestants, but he, Ruud, quit church when he was 16, that is possible in protestant churches but at that time not in r.c. church. Now of course everything is possible.
We have 3 grandchildren, two boys, of our daughter Marjolein and her partner Hans (living in Enschede), they are now 10 and almost 8, and a granddaughter, about 8 weeks, daughter of our youngest son Alexander and partner Miranda, living in a village near here. None of our children is married, they did sign a contract of some kind, especially in view of their children. Our other son, Patrick, who is 43 and not living in any kind of relationship, lives in Rotterdam since a couple of months.
So that is my story, in short.
Marianne.