Do you parents have health insurance? That is a recent technology that used to be covered by charity, ie the church. If they didn't have, now state sponsored, healthcare, they may have stuck around.

Were they raised in government schools and instructed 10hrs a day to doubt their religion and hate their ancestors? Government.

Were they constantly bombarded by propaganda encouraging a hedonistic lifestyle and liberalism? Technology.

Were they members of an insular community comprised of families that traced their lineage hundreds of generations in the same geographic location or were they the products of suburbs, globalism, and integration? Technology AND government.

I never said your parents abandoning their religions was due to technology or government. It sure could have been but that wasn't what I was saying. But the replacement of God, religion and a broadly unified belief system with materialism and divided belief systems was surely another factor loosening family bonds while promoting selfishness and short term thinking.