About half of U.S. pet owners say their pets are as much a part of their family as a human member
Most Americans (62%) own a pet, including 35% who have more than one. And nearly all U.S. pet owners (97%) say their pets are part of their family.
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Most Americans (62%) own a pet, including 35% who have more than one. And nearly all U.S. pet owners (97%) say their pets are part of their family.
1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.
Seven-in-ten U.S. adults who are single and looking for a relationship or dates say their dating lives are not going well.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
Americans’ comfort levels with using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to someone have remained static since 2017.
Many single-and-looking people wouldn’t want to date someone who voted for the opposing party’s candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Many Americans say the country hasn’t gone far enough in giving black people equal rights with whites. Most believe slavery continues to impact black people’s status.
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
Couples who meet online are more likely than those who meet offline to be diverse by some measures – but this can be explained by age.
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