3. How parents think their young adult children are doing
Parents generally feel proud and hopeful about their young adult children’s lives, and most say their kids’ successes and failures reflect on their parenting.
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Parents generally feel proud and hopeful about their young adult children’s lives, and most say their kids’ successes and failures reflect on their parenting.
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Read about how adults’ average number of kids vary by religious group, and how many parents pray with their kids, opt for a religious education and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
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Same-sex parents discuss their unique challenges and paths to parenthood, as well the support they’ve received from their families, friends and communities.
The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 171 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from May 13 to 26, 2025, among a sample of adults who are parents or guardians of any child […]
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These declines in the number of children adults plan to have occurred almost entirely in the last decade.
59% of LGBTQ U.S. adults under 50 who have never married say they want to get married someday, and 63% of non-LGBTQ adults in this age range say the same.
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