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Opinion: Latter-day Saint women are happier than most. So why are more young women struggling?

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Opinion: Latter-day Saint women are happier than most. So why are more young women struggling?
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Young women walk together. 0x+Religious women, and especially Latter-day Saint women, really are happier than most Americans. This is clear in a recent BYU Studies article my colleagues and I published. Yet we also found the retention rate among Latter-day Saint women is decreasing.