About 6.7 million people or 3.3% of adults age 30 and over lived with their grandchildren in 2021, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau report on the characteristics and geography of grandparents living with grandchildren under the age of 18…
Category: Family/Parenting
About 20% of Parents Reported Difficulty Getting Infant Formula in Summer 2023, Down 35% from Fall 2022
In 2022, the United States experienced an infant formula shortage [PDF 10.4 MB] due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large voluntary recall, and related supply chain issues. Data show that ‘obtained formula at a different store than where they usually shopped’ was…
More Americans Support National Right to Abortion
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham last week introduced legislation that would put a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The proposed law wouldn’t stop states from having stricter restrictions, but would stop states that allow abortions…
Home is Where the Heart Is
“Who says you can’t go home/who says you can’t go back/I been all around the world and as a matter of fact/there’s only one place left I want to go/who says you can’t go home…” sang Bon Jovi in the…
Debt Doesn’t Always Cause Divorce, but It’s Often a Result of It
A third of divorced couples say money woes were a “primary factor” in the breakup of their marriages, but nearly two thirds took on debt after their divorces were final. Those results – from a new survey by Debt.com and DivorceMag.com – were consistent…
Global Pandemic Fundamentally Changes Family Meals Landscape
The global pandemic fundamentally has changed many aspects of our lives – from work, to school, to shopping – and now even the way we eat, particularly family meals. The FMI Foundation has documented this shift with a research tracking…
Parents In The South Play More With Their Kids
Children living in the South get more playtime with their parents than kids living in any other region of the country, according to new research commissioned by the Toy Industry Association’s (TIA) Genius of Play initiative, which aims to raise…
Millennial Moms Expected to Add $750 Billion to U.S. Economy
With a tap, swipe or click, 13 million Millennial Moms will spend over $750 billion in the U.S. this year. And their economic impacts will only increase as the number of Millennial Moms is expected to at least double over…
Top-Indexing YouTube Video Categories Among Mothers
Mothers are avid viewers of YouTube videos, being slightly more likely than the overall internet browsing population to visit YouTube on a monthly basis, according to data from Compete. While music (26%) videos capture the greatest share of mothers’ viewing,…
Tooth Fairy Pays Record $255 Million For Lost Teeth in 2014
The recovering U.S. economy is benefitting kids, with the average gift from the Tooth Fairy reaching a new high of $4.36 last year, up from $3.50 in 2013, according to Delta Dental’s The Original Tooth Fairy Poll. The Tooth Fairy…