As the pandemic persisted, financial pressures became a bigger factor in why Americans decided to move
Recent pandemic migrants are more likely than those who moved earlier in the outbreak to have relocated due to financial stress.
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Recent pandemic migrants are more likely than those who moved earlier in the outbreak to have relocated due to financial stress.
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
Three-in-ten Millennials live with a spouse and child, compared with 40% of Gen Xers at a comparable age.
45% of Americans don’t think it makes a difference that there is growing variety in the types of family arrangements people live in.
Financial independence is one of the many markers used to designate the crossover from childhood into young adulthood, and it’s a milestone most Americans (64%) think young adults should reach by the time they are 22 years old, according to a new Pew Research Center study. But that’s not the reality for most young adults who’ve reached this age.
This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size.
As marriage rates have declined, the share of U.S. adults who have ever lived with an unmarried partner has risen.
The changing role of fathers has introduced new challenges as dads juggle the competing demands of family and work.
Millennials are the largest adult generation in the United States, and the American family continues to change.
Multigenerational caregivers in the U.S., who account for 12% of parents, provide more than two and a half hours of unpaid care a day.
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