Age & Generations

Today, 57% of U.S. adults say use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal. A decade ago, opinion was nearly the reverse.

Though both parents work full time in 46% of two-parent U.S. households, most Americans say children with two parents are better off when one stays home.

When asked whether one prefers to read, watch or listen to their news, younger adults are far more likely than older adults to opt for text – and most of that reading is occurring on the web.

The share of Americans who do not identify with a religious group is surely growing, but there are differing ideas about the factors driving this trend.

Despite the technological potential to help humans live longer and stronger, many U.S. adults are not ready to embrace these possibilities.

Almost all of the world’s nations have laws specifying at which age a couple can marry, and in most of these countries, those under the age of 18 are allowed to wed.

Recent presidential elections have been dominated by voters from the Baby Boom and previous generations. That may change this November.

A new gene-editing method called CRISPR exemplifies how the technology is rapidly becoming a present-day reality. Yet, Americans are wary of editing embryos, according to a survey on the broader field of “human enhancement.”

All states prosecute parents whose children come to severe harm through neglect. But in thirty-four states (as well as the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico), there are exemptions in the civil child abuse statutes when medical treatment for a child conflicts with the religious beliefs of parents.

More than 60 million people are displaced from their homes as of the end of 2015, the highest number of displaced people since World War II.