Children living with their Grandparents

In a recent report for the Pew Research CenterSocial and Demographic Trends, “At Grandmother’s House We Stay,” Gretchen Livingston said that one in ten children are living with a grandparent in 2011. The report is based on data from the 2000 Decennial Census and the 2005 – 2011 American Community Surveys both conducted by the U. S. Census and a nationally representative estimates of the U. S. population.

The chart shows that 7.7 million children in the U. S. live with a grandparent and grandparents provided care for about 3 million of those children. In 2000, the number of children who lived primarily with their grandparents was about 6 million. 

Read more:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/09/04/at-grandmothers-house-we-stay/

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2013/09/grandparents_report_final_2013.pdf

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http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/author/glivingston/

http://www.ipums.org/

http://www.census.gov/

Progress Towards MLK's Dream for America

In a recently released report from Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends, "King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities," it was found that many Americans (45%) say the US has made "a lot" of progress toward racial equality and nearly half of all  Americans (49%) say that “a lot more” needs to be done.  The data for this study were gathered by interviewing 2,231 adults in the continental US. Interviews were conducted by cell and landline telephone from August 1 through 11, 2013 .

This report is accompanied by an interactive tool that allows the user to view the data in table and chart forms and see the changes in a number of measures over time.

Read more:
http://www.pewresearch.org/
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/22/kings-dream-remains-an-elusive-goal-many-americans-see-racial-disparities/
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2013/08/final_full_report_racial_disparities.pdf
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/22/race-demographics/
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/category/interactives/

Marriage Still in Recession

The Pew Research Center released a new report detailing the continued decline of marriage in 2011.  Using data collected by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, Pew reported on the 4.2 million Americans who tied the knot in 2011.  This continues the downward trend in marriage that began when the ACS began asking about marital status in 2008.

Half (51%) of all adults were married in 2011, as compared with 72% in 1960.  This downward trend occurred among all age and education groups, with the largest drop occurring among the less-educated.  Between 2008 and 2011, marriage among Americans without a high school or equivalent education fell by 14%, while those with a college degree only fell 10%.