Barbara Risman News Today

To the millennial generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?

Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high. Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are living alone for the first time in recorded history. “It’s just a stunning social change,” said Eric Klinenberg, a…

Nearly 30% of American households are now comprised of a single person in what experts view as a social transformation rather than a trend.

Americans have never been older. The nation’s median age reached 38.9 in 2022, according to new Census data; that’s the highest it has ever been. Median age is the chronological midpoint in the U.S. population, and it has been creeping up for decades. In 2000, the median age was 35. In 1980, it was 30.…

A new Deseret News/HarrisX national poll reveals a working class who remain skeptical of the American dream. Can people still make it in America? Read more.

U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center recently settled a long-running lawsuit brought by a professor who alleged discrimination on the basis of age and sex. What does this case say about conditions for older female academics?

As debate around overturning Roe v. Wade reaches a fever pitch in the U.S., a majority of American men say they support some level of access to abortion. Now is the time for them to speak up, advocates say.

NEW YORK (AP) — If Donovan Atterberry thought about abortion at all as a young man, it was perhaps with some vague discomfort, or a memory of the anti-abortion protesters

According to polls, a majority of American men say they support some level of access to abortion.

NEW YORK (AP) — If Donovan Atterberry thought about abortion at all as a young man, it...