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.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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.
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.
In the U.S., 43% of teenagers say children are better off when one parent doesn’t have a job and focuses on the family.
Same-sex parents discuss their unique challenges and paths to parenthood, as well the support they’ve received from their families, friends and communities.
One-in-five U.S. adults ages 50 and older have never had children, according to Pew Research Center analysis of government data.[5. numoffset=”5″ In this analysis, “children” refers to biological children only. Refer to Methodology section for more details.] Not having children is more common among adults in their 50s and 60s than those in their 70s. […]
Majorities say more women in the workforce is a good thing. Read more about religious groups’ views on gender in the labor force, and stay-at-home parents. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.
A majority of U.S. adults ages 50 and older who don’t have children say not having kids hasn’t had much of an impact on their personal relationships. And for the most part, they report that they rarely, if ever, felt pressure to have children when they were younger. Similarly, majorities of adults under 50 who […]
These declines in the number of children adults plan to have occurred almost entirely in the last decade.
The survey asked Asian immigrants about their views of life in the United States and how it compares with their country of origin. Majorities say the U.S. is better on nearly all qualities asked about in the survey, and about three-quarters say they would choose to come to the U.S. if they could do it […]
Majorities of both moms and dads with a young adult child age 18 to 34 say they’re as involved in their child’s day-to-day life as they’d like to be.
Notifications