Short Reads

In 2014, just 14% of children younger than 18 lived with a stay-at-home mother and a working father who were in their first marriage. In 1960, half of children were living in this arrangement.

A significant minority of adults have felt confused, discouraged or impatient when trying to make decisions about sharing their information.

Congress passed 113 laws, 87 of them substantive, in 2015, making it the most productive first session since 2009.

Americans view trouble in finding work or advancing one’s career as the most significant impediment facing those without broadband.

Americans place less importance on religion in their lives than do people in a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia -- but more than residents of many other Western and European countries.

From trust in government to views of climate change, here are some of Pew Research Center's most memorable findings of the year.

In the last two decades, several religious groups have moved to allow same-sex couples to marry within their traditions.

Millennials are less religious than older Americans and less likely to identify with a religious group, and those traits are reflected in the way they celebrate Christmas.

Acceptance of homosexuality is rising across the broad spectrum of American Christianity, including among members of churches that strongly oppose homosexual relationships as sinful.

A new Pew Research Center report looks at the challenges parents face in raising their children and how parenting approaches differ across demographic groups.