short readMar 28, 2013 More Working Mothers Now Prefer Full-Time Work Roughly four-in-ten working mothers with children under 18 say their ideal situation would be to work full-time, up from 21% in 2007.
short readMar 27, 2013 Fewer Say Same Sex Marriage Undermines the Family, but Public Still Divided In 2003, 56% of Americans said same-sex marriage undermined the traditional family, but that number has dropped 10 points since then.
short readMar 26, 2013 Support for Same Sex Marriage Grows as More Americans Change their Views A key factor in rising support for same-sex marriage is that 14% of all Americans say theyโve changed their minds on the issue.
short readMar 25, 2013 Local TV News, Facing Challenges, Turns to Heavy Diet of Traffic, Weather and Sports The already considerable amount of time devoted to sports, weather and traffic on local newscasts rose from 32% 2005 to 40% in 2012.
short readMar 22, 2013 Number of Christians Rises, But Their Share of World Population Stays Stable The number of Christians in the world has nearly quadrupled in the last 100 years, but they comprise about the same share (32%) of the population.
short readMar 21, 2013 Young Adults Reduce Their Debt in Wake of the Recession Young adults shrunk the amount of debt they were carrying by 29% between 2007 and 2010.
short readMar 20, 2013 Most Second Generation Hispanics Put Importance on Ability to Retain Spanish More than two-thirds of second-generation Latinos consider it very important for future generations to be able to speak Spanish.
short readMar 19, 2013 Veterans of Post-9/11 Wars Ambivalent about Whether Iraq Was Worth It In a 2011 survey of veterans of the post -9/11 wars, 44% said Iraq was worth fighting while 50% said it was not.
short readMar 18, 2013 Teachers See Digital Divide among Students More than half of teachers say students have good access to digital technology at school, but access at home is harder to come by.
reportMar 15, 2013 Modern Parenthood: Live Discussion Transcript Kim Parker, associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project, and Wendy Wang, research associate, answer questions from readers on the Modern Parenthood survey,