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**Cover Story: Faith and Family in America Survey
**According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there has been enormous growth in the number of nontraditional families over the past 40 years in America. In 1970, traditional families (married couples with their own children) made up 40% of American households, but by 2000, they comprised only 24%. And, from 1960 to 2000, the number of unmarried couples living together increased tenfold with about 10 million people (8% of U.S. coupled households) cohabiting with a partner of the opposite sex.
This week, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY offers a preview of new findings about family views on divorce, cohabitation, nontraditional family situations, and how family is defined by people of various faiths in an exclusive survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. focusing on religion and the family. These findings will be included in the upcoming special four-part series, “Faith and Family in America,” to be broadcast over four consecutive weeks beginning October 28.
In this sneak peek, Bob Abernethy is joined by John Green, professor of political science and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and senior fellow, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Anna Greenberg, vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, for a discussion and analysis of the survey findings. University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox, a resident fellow with the Institute for American Values, also shares his findings on religion and married men.
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**According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there has been enormous growth in the number of nontraditional families over the past 40 years in America. In 1970, traditional families (married couples with their own children) made up 40% of American households, but by 2000, they comprised only 24%. And, from 1960 to 2000, the number of unmarried couples living together increased tenfold with about 10 million people (8% of U.S. coupled households) cohabiting with a partner of the opposite sex.
This week, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY offers a preview of new findings about family views on divorce, cohabitation, nontraditional family situations, and how family is defined by people of various faiths in an exclusive survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. focusing on religion and the family. These findings will be included in the upcoming special four-part series, “Faith and Family in America,” to be broadcast over four consecutive weeks beginning October 28.
In this sneak peek, Bob Abernethy is joined by John Green, professor of political science and director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and senior fellow, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and Anna Greenberg, vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, for a discussion and analysis of the survey findings. University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox, a resident fellow with the Institute for American Values, also shares his findings on religion and married men.
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