The percentage of teenagers who are obese has more than quadrupled in the past 40 years, according to the National Center for Health Statist...

The living arrangements of the nation's children have changed little over the past 12 years, according to a Census Bureau report compari...

To think for oneself is the most important thing children should learn to prepare them for life, according to the 2021 General Social Survey...

Among the nation's 130 million households in 2021, only 23.1 million were married couples with children under age 18. Not since 1959 hav...

A substantial percentage of the nation's school children have experienced stressful life events, according to an analysis by the Nationa...

If you're like most Americans with living mothers, your mom lives only a few miles away. Yes, even in these modern times. "Very clo...

Who will care for childless adults as they age and require more help? That is one of the questions asked by the Census Bureau in its first e...

Just 55 percent of the nation's children aged 12 to 17 have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, according to the Census Burea...

The number of households in the United States grew by only 9.3 percent over the past 10 years—from 118 million in 2010 to 128 million in 202...

On an average day, 70 percent of children and 61 percent of adults eat sweets, according to the USDA's Food Surveys Research Group. Noti...

The 69 percent majority of parents with children in grades 7 through 12 think it is important for their children to learn computer science, ...

Back in the good old pre-Covid days of 2019, most preschoolers went to day care. The 59 percent majority of children aged 0 to 5 and not yet...

Fast food is a big part of the daily diet of American children. On an average day in 2015–18, more than one-third of children aged 2 to 19 (...

Modern American parents do not devote all that much time to child care. Instead, they depend on day care providers, schools, and extracurric...

Only 36 percent of parents want full-time in-person schooling to resume in the upcoming school year, according to a Gallup survey. As school...

Today's parents are concerned about their children's screen time. Fully 71 percent of parents with children under age 12 are worried...

The nation's parents are not happy. Most of them (51 percent) are very/extremely worried about sending their children back to school in ...

One-fifth of the nation's households are taking part in a massive experiment in remote learning. Among the 129 million households in the...

Households headed by Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics are more likely to include children under age 18 than are households headed by non-Hispan...

Only 26 percent of American households include children under age 18, according to the Census Bureau's 2019 Current Population Survey—a ...