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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More dads than ever before—roughly 550,000 in the past decade and counting—are staying home full-time with their children.
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 […]
This posting links to a September 2013 Pew Research Center report on children living with, and being cared for, by their grandparents.
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.
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 […]
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.
A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data. The number of single father households has increased about ninefold since 1960, from less than […]
Currently, 35% of Americans say the increase in gay and lesbian couples raising children is a bad thing, a decline from recent years.
About a quarter of LGBT men are fathers, and an additional 14% would like to have children someday.
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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