Family & Relationships

Today’s parents must navigate how, when and to what extent they oversee their teens’ online and mobile activities.

Parents monitor their teen’s digital activities in a number of ways, such as checking browser histories or social media profiles, but using technical means like parental controls is less common.

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.

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

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

There are deep divisions among U.S. parents today rooted in economic well-being. Parents’ outlooks, worries and aspirations for their children are strongly linked to financial circumstances.

After more than four decades of serving as the nation's economic majority, the U.S. middle class is now matched in size by those in the economic tiers above and below it.

College-educated women have an almost eight-in-ten chance of still being married after two decades.

Most American adults say a family member is caring for their aging parent who needs help handling their affairs or caring for themselves. And if they’re not already helping out a parent, most expect to do so someday.

A larger share of young women live at home with their parents or other relatives than at any point since 1940, as more attend college and marry later in life.