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    Childlessness

    In the mid-1970s, when data on lifetime childlessness first became available, one-in-ten U.S. women ages 40 to 44 had never had a biological child. Childlessness remained quite low into the 1980s, and rose precipitously thereafter. While the likelihood of remaining childless has been on the decline recently among women at the end of their childbearing […]

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    Appendix D: About the Surveys

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 18-22, March 25-29 and May 12-18, 2015 among a combined national sample of 5,006 adults, ages 18 or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (1,751 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 3,255 were interviewed on […]

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    5. Helping Adult Children

    Family support goes in different directions and ebbs and flows at different stages of life. This section explores the support and assistance parents give to their adult children. The survey finds that, in all three countries, parents are providing a fair amount of help to their adult children. Many in the U.S., Italy and Germany […]

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    Chapter 2: How Teens Hang Out and Stay in Touch With Their Closest Friends

    Teens have many different kinds of friends. There are casual acquaintances, associates, classmates, school friends, friends from camp or church or dance or soccer, all with varying and shifting degrees of closeness. The preceding chapter of this report examined the role of digital technologies in the broad scope of teens’ friendships. In this chapter, we […]

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    Concerns about children, social media and technology use

    One-in-three parents say they have had concerns or questions about their child’s technology use in the last year. Previous research about teenagers and technology shows that parents of teens are both supportive and wary of their child’s use of the internet, social media, and cell phones.[22. numoffset=”22″ “.” Pew Research Center, Nov. 09, 2011. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2011/11/09/part-5-parents-and-online-social-spaces-tech-tool-ownership-and-attitudes-towards-social-media/] […]

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    About the Survey

    The survey was conducted online with a random sample of 3,748 U.S.-based members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from Sept. 11, 2014, to Oct. 13, 2014. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and includes members from all scientific fields. Founded in 1848, AAAS publishes Science, one of the […]

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    About the Survey

    The survey was conducted online with a random sample of 3,748 U.S.-based members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from Sept. 11, 2014, to Oct. 13, 2014. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and includes members from all scientific fields. Founded in 1848, AAAS publishes Science, one of the […]