Study: More men on the ‘daddy track’
More dads than ever before—roughly 550,000 in the past decade and counting—are staying home full-time with their children.
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At Grandmother’s House We Stay
In 2011, 7.7 million children in the U.S.–one-in-ten—were living with a grandparent, and approximately 3 million of these children were also being cared for primarily by that grandparent.[1. Based on cases where a minor child is living with a grandparent who is a household head, spouse of the head, or parent or parent-in-law of the […]
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Grandparents and Child Care
This posting links to a September 2013 Pew Research Center report on children living with, and being cared for, by their grandparents.
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Mothers and work: What’s ’ideal’?
For most American mothers, part-time work would be their ideal work situation, preferred over full-time work or not working at all outside the home.
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More Young Adults Live with Their Parents
A record number of Millennials—young adults ages 18 to 31—were living in their parents’ home in 2012 due to a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors, according to a new Pew Research Center report. The report, which used U.S. Census Bureau data, said the 36% share of young adults living in their parents’ home represents […]
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A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home
In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31—the so-called Millennial generation—were living in their parents’ home, the highest share in at least four decades. The number of young adults doing so has risen by 3 million since the start of the start of the recession in 2007, an increase driven by a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors.
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Fewer Americans have negative views of more gays raising children
Currently, 35% of Americans say the increase in gay and lesbian couples raising children is a bad thing, a decline from recent years.
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It’s Fathers’ Day for many American men, including 23% of those who are LGBT
About a quarter of LGBT men are fathers, and an additional 14% would like to have children someday.
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The New American Father
A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that Americans expect dad to be more of a moral teacher and emotional comforter than a breadwinner or disciplinarian.
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5 facts about fathers
For newer Pew Research Center findings on fathers, click here. The Census Bureau estimates that last year there were about 189,000 stay-at-home dads, defined as married fathers with children younger than 15 who stayed out of the labor force for at least one year primarily to care for the family while their wife works outside the […]