Pew Research Center Staff

Being a good father is ranked as the most important trait of a good husband/partner by nearly everyone.

More than half of online adults use Wikipedia — which celebrates its 10th anniversary this Saturday — to look for information.

A majority of Americans (57%) say the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend.

By a margin of 52%-33%, Americans think the U.S. should re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.

A summer 2010 survey found the public split, but in favor of gun control over the right to own guns by a 50%-to-46% margin.

Seven-in-ten say the trend toward more single women having children is bad for society, and 61% say that a child needs both a mother and father to grow up happily.

Three-quarters of adults say they are very satisfied with their family life; 19% are somewhat satisfied.

Nearly four-in-ten survey respondents say that marriage has become obsolete as an institution in American life.

Two thirds of Republicans say the country is losing ground on the way the health care system is working, up from 41% in December 2008.