

Most parents who took part are members of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. parents with children younger than 18 from Sept.

For those who are taking a different approach to parenting compared with their own upbringing, a focus on love and their relationship with their children was the most common theme.įor this analysis, we surveyed 3,757 U.S. Among parents who say they’re raising their children similarly to how they were raised, the dominant theme focused on values and beliefs that are important to their family. Five distinct themes emerged from the parents’ open-ended responses. When asked in an open-ended question to describe the specific ways in which they’re raising their children, parents’ responses touched on many different dimensions of family life, with some including details from their own upbringing. More from this survey: Parenting in America Today About one-in-ten parents (12%) say they’re neither trying to raise their children similarly to nor differently from how they were raised. parents say they are raising their children similarly to how they were raised (43%) as say they are trying to take a different approach (44%). parents raising their children these days, and how does their approach compare with the way their own parents raised them? To answer this, Pew Research Center asked over 3,700 parents nationwide: Compared with how you were raised, are you trying to raise your children in a similar way or a different way?
