Many Expect At Least 20 at Thanksgiving Meal
About a quarter of those sharing Thanksgiving dinner with family expect 20 or more people at the table.
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About a quarter of those sharing Thanksgiving dinner with family expect 20 or more people at the table.
Two-thirds (66%) of women ages 18 to 34 rate career as important on their list of life priorities, compared with 59% of young men.
Just over half (52%) of Millennials say that the increase in people having children without getting married has been a change for the worse. Older generations hold a significantly more negative view of this trend.
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Nearly four-in-ten survey respondents say that marriage has become obsolete as an institution in American life.
The sweeping changes in family structure that have occurred roughly over the past 50 years have split the public into three roughly equal groups: Accepters, Rejecters and Skeptics.
Despite large changes in family structure and formation rates, the public maintains a strongly positive view about marriage and the family.
More than nine-in-ten married people say that love is a very important reason to marry while only about three-in-ten cite financial stability as an important factor. The data suggest otherwise.
More than a third of Americans cite religion as the top influence on their view of gay marriage.
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