August 11, 2008
Cohabitation is more common than marriage among 18- to 20-year-olds in the United States, but the two lifestyles are about even among 21- to 23-year-olds, and by age 24, marriage wins out. Americans have mixed views about the effects of living ...
May 23, 2008
On a spectrum of moral issues, residents of key Western nations and Muslim populations in three major European cities differ most in their views of homosexuality, abortion, pornography, and sex outside of marriage.
May 19, 2008
Americans’ view of divorce as morally acceptable jumped by five percentage points, to 70%, over the past year, and is now substantially higher than at the start of the decade.
May 15, 2008
The California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a state ban on gay marriage runs contrary to how the majority of Americans feel about the issue. Only 40% believe marriages between same-sex couples should be legally valid; 56% say they should ...
April 4, 2008
Married couples in America today maintain a strong and traditional division of labor, with 68% of married adults saying the wife does the laundry, and 57% saying the husband does the yard work. There has been little change in these patterns over ...
March 25, 2008
Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say they would not forgive their spouse for an extramarital affair (64%), would seek a divorce if one occurred (62%), and would not stand by their spouse if he or she were an elected official who had to face the media ...
February 14, 2008
Americans’ party affiliation varies by their marital status. Unmarried Americans are more likely to identify as Democrats than as independents or in particular Republicans, while married Americans tilt toward the GOP. Within the group of U.S. ...
Do you think gay or lesbian relations between consenting adults should or should not be legal? As you may know, there has been considerable discussion in the news regarding the rights of homosexual men and women. In general, do you think ...
August 16, 2007
According to a recent Gallup Poll, 77% of Americans say they approve of marriages between blacks and whites. This includes the vast majority of whites and blacks, but blacks are much more likely than whites to approve of interracial marriages. ...
June 4, 2007
Americans widely agree on the moral acceptability of 8 out of the 16 social issues Gallup tested in its recent Values and Beliefs survey. There is general agreement on an additional four, while four others -- homosexuality, doctor-assisted ...
