2 ( See chapters 2 and 3 in the full report) This is a far higher share than was the case in earlier generations. We estimate that, in 2006, more than a third of 18 to 29 year old women who gave birth were unmarried. About a third (34%) are parents, according to the Pew Research survey. Just one-in-five Millennials (21%) are married now, half the share of their parents’ generation at the same stage of life.
In weighing their own life priorities, Millennials (like older adults) place parenthood and marriage far above career and financial success. Only about six-in-ten were raised by both parents - a smaller share than was the case with older generations. Millennials pray about as often as their elders did in their own youth. Yet not belonging does not necessarily mean not believing. One-in-four are unaffiliated with any religion, far more than the share of older adults when they were ages 18 to 29. They are the least overtly religious American generation in modern times. More so than other generations, they believe government should do more to solve problems. Yet they are less skeptical than their elders of government. Two-thirds say “you can’t be too careful” when dealing with people. Whether as a by-product of protective parents, the age of terrorism or a media culture that focuses on dangers, they cast a wary eye on human nature. Research shows that young people who graduate from college in a bad economy typically suffer long-term consequences - with effects on their careers and earnings that linger as long as 15 years. But at the moment, fully 37% of 18- to 29-year-olds are unemployed or out of the workforce, the highest share among this age group in more than three decades. ( See chapters 4 and 7 in the full report)ĭespite struggling (and often failing) to find jobs in the teeth of a recession, about nine-in-ten either say that they currently have enough money or that they will eventually meet their long-term financial goals. And 70% say their tattoos are hidden beneath clothing. Most Millennials have placed privacy boundaries on their social media profiles. But their look-at-me tendencies are not without limits. Nearly one-in-four have a piercing in some place other than an earlobe - about six times the share of older adults who’ve done this. Nearly four-in-ten have a tattoo (and for most who do, one is not enough: about half of those with tattoos have two to five and 18% have six or more). One-in-five have posted a video of themselves online. Three-quarters have created a profile on a social networking site. They embrace multiple modes of self-expression. Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation. They’re less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history.
They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials - the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium - have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.
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