Almost 90% of Americans think families should have multiple ...

Americans think families should have more than one child but the cost of raising just one kid has increased 19% between 2016 and 2021.

When asked about the ideal number of children for a family to have, a 44% plurality of U.S. adults think having two children is best, and 3% say ...

A recent Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans that think the ideal family should include three or more children is as high as ...

A family in the United States consists of 3.15 people on average. Families are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a group of two or more ...

In many families, mothers remain the most important source of personal and emotional support, although there are considerable cross-cultural ...

Our friends at Gallup confirmed this. A poll this summer found that almost nobody — just 3 percent of Americans — considers one child to be the ...

Only about a fifth of American parents say it's important to them that their children get married and have a family.

About 80% of single-parent homes are led by single mothers. Children from single-parent families are twice as likely to suffer from mental ...

A household headed by a married mother and father who are both the biological parents of their children is no longer the most common version of ...

The divorce rate fell during this time because it was expensive and few could afford it. However, by 1940 almost 2 million married couples lived ...

Same-sex parents. Cohabiting couples. Voluntary kin. Children with parents in prison. Immigrant-Americans. What we thought of as the typical ...

Most people eventually marry. This fact means that marriage remains an important ideal in American life, even if not all marriages succeed.

Less than half of Americans say a married (47%) or unmarried (41%) gay or lesbian couple raising children is completely acceptable, with another ...

I would hope to see that with time, these numbers will shift more positively, especially as they start to get represented more in the media and ...

For the 0.8 percent who fell into the lower class—about 2.6 million Americans—it is increasingly likely that they and their children will remain ...

“Families that include a married husband and wife raising children are seen as the most acceptable. At the same time, relatively few Americans ...

The family structure we've held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many.

Researchers found a similar discrepancy when respondents were asked about their families. A whopping 87 percent of respondents felt their ...

More than 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. Approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) ages 18 and over report some ...

In America today, around 70% of people cohabit before marriage, and almost 90% have sex before they marry. Moreover, around 40% of kids are ...