Many Americans report interacting with dead relatives in dreams or other ways
46% of Americans report that they’ve been visited by a dead family member in a dream, while 31% report having been visited by dead relatives in some other form.
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46% of Americans report that they’ve been visited by a dead family member in a dream, while 31% report having been visited by dead relatives in some other form.
Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favor traditional gender roles in family life.
India’s artificially wide ratio of baby boys to baby girls – which arose in the 1970s from the use of prenatal diagnostic technology to facilitate sex-selective abortions – now appears to be narrowing. Son bias has declined sharply among Sikhs, while Christians continue to have a natural balance of sons and daughters.
Two-thirds or more in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam say that women should decide for themselves whether to bear children.
Indians nearly universally say it is important for women to have the same rights as men, including eight-in-ten who say this is very important.
All major religious groups in India have shown sharp declines in their fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition since 1951. Meanwhile, fertility differences between India’s religious groups are generally much smaller than they used to be.
To highlight some of India’s religious, cultural and demographic differences, here are key facts about its states.
Amid questions over e-cigarettes and public health, here’s a look at what data shows about vaping in the U.S.
Family is the most common source of meaning in America, but economic, religious and political divides shape where people find meaning in other aspects of life.
Four topics are universally associated with higher levels of life satisfaction: a person’s good health, romantic partner, friends and career.
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