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    When Private Lives Become Public

    Generally, the issues matter most in voters’ judgments about presidential candidates, but personality, character and values are not far behind — and especially so in primary elections.

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    How Accurate Are Counts of Same-Sex Couples?

    This posting discusses the challenges for the Census Bureau in counting same-sex couples, married and unmarried. The accuracy of data depends on responses in Census Bureau questionnaires and bureau procedures to collect and edit responses, and the posting describes both.

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    Section 1: A Demographic Portrait of Muslim Americans

    Muslim Americans are a heavily immigrant population. Of those age 18 and older, more than six-in-ten (63%) were born abroad, and many are relative newcomers to the United States: Fully one-quarter of all U.S. Muslim adults (25%) have arrived in this country since 2000. The Muslim American population also is significantly younger and more racially […]

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    Section 2: Candidate Traits and Experience

    Military service and past experience as a governor or a business executive are seen as positive traits for a presidential candidate. About half (49%) say they would be more likely to support a candidate who has served in the military, 37% would be more likely to support a candidate who has been a governor, and […]

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    Family Meals, Cohabitation and Divorce

    More than 2,000 demographers, sociologists and others converged on Washington, D.C., last week for the Population Association of America’s annual meeting.

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    New Facts About Families

    Researchers recently presented some findings that dispute the popular (or academic) wisdom about important aspects of family life and bear upon relevant findings from Pew Research surveys.

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    A Tale of Two Fathers

    In the last 50 years, fathers have become much more involved in the day-to-day lives of the children they live with. During that same time period, though, the share of fathers living apart from their children has risen dramatically, to 27% in 2010.

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    Discipline of Religious Groups’ Members

    A third type of case involves disputes concerning how a religious organization treats its members. This includes a wide range of scenarios, such as a religious group’s excommunication of someone in its congregation or disclosure of embarrassing information about that individual. Courts have generally examined these cases in the same way they have examined church […]

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    The Marrying — and Divorcing — Kind

    Compared with most other western nations, the U.S. has one of the highest marriage rates as well as one of the highest divorce rates.

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