The public does see at least one bright spot ahead for older Americans. However, the public is broadly pessimistic about the trajectory of health care costs over the next 30 years. Say "Alexa, enable the Pew Research Center flash briefing". It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values.
Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. The vast majority of U. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. Divided views on the future of race relations but some hopeful signs The public is uncertain whether the troubled state of race relations today will still be a feature of American life in Few Americans predict a higher standard of living for families, older adults or children in When Americans predict what the economic circumstances of the average family will be in , they do so with more trepidation than hope.
Next: 2. Are you a Faith and Flag Conservative? Here are nine different ideas about the future of the family. Indeed, our sense of the family as a concept has changed over time, it and will continue to do so well into the future.
At the same time, however, families are a microcosm of society. This puts them in a unique and challenging position; they are simultaneously the vanguard of social change, and often the target of moral outrage.
For instance, anti-miscegenation laws were only finally removed from all U. Looking ahead to the future, families will continue to change and adapt according to cultural, socioeconomic and technological factors. Statistics show that multi-generational families are on the rise , mostly because housing and other things are getting so expensive.
Likewise, two or more family groups may wind up deciding to live together in a single home, to save money. Keep in mind that families and households are two distinct things. And unrelated families sharing a home makes sense for all kind of reasons—and not just soaring rents. Sure, housing costs in many large urban areas are becoming increasingly untenable, and families are finding it difficult to live on their own. But also, as the old saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child; multiple families in a single household can share caring duties—a benefit to single parents or those who have to do shift work.
The onset of radical life extension is set to have a profound effect on family structure and intra-family dynamics. The way of the future? Six generations of the same family in one photograph credit: CBC. Even just 50 years from now, children could have a chance to know their great-great grandparents. The U. Census Bureau also estimates that approximately 86 million! Americans will be foreign-born by , constituting approximately one-fifth of the total population.
The birth rate among unwed mothers has recently gone down for the first time in decades. The number of single-parent households has steadily tripled since the s, but more lenient social mores aren't the only thing that have allowed rates of single parenthood to blossom. In-vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies, which are only becoming more common, will allow more and more people to become parents — with or without a partner.
Wider acceptance of same-sex couples has helped shake up the American family in several crucial ways, including the ways we understand parenthood. IVF, surrogacy and adoption among same-sex parents. All have contributed to revolutionizing our idea of what a family should look like, and it's no longer unheard of for, say, a child to be raised by two moms and spend weekends with a father who donated sperm.
Hey, in California, kids can legally have up to four parents listed on their birth certificates. Pew estimates that fewer than half of American children currently live in "traditional" two-parent families.
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