Common sense：2024美国儿童与家庭状况报告（英文版）（21页）.pdf

1、The State of Kids and Families in America The State of Kids and Families in America 20241 THE STATE OF KIDS AND FAMILIES IN AMERICA 2024 COMMON SENSE MEDIA.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Summary1.Likely voters,parents,teens,and kids alike do not think things are going very positively for American families.Ther

2、e is a gender gap here,with women feeling even more negative.Across party identification,voters express these feelings of economic concern and pessimism.2.These feelings translate into intense agreement across party lines that being a parent today is financially harder than ever before.3.Though it h

3、as long been a central tenet of the American dream that the next generation will be more successful than the last,many respondents do not think this is the case any longer.Likely voters who arent parents are feeling the most bleak,with just 22%saying children today will be better off in adulthood th

4、an you are.The gender difference is stark,with more than half of nonparent women(54%)saying children today will be worse off.However,parents of kids and teens modestly think their kids will be better off in adulthood(44%),though 25%say they will be worse off,and 25%say their kids will be about the s

5、ame as they are.4.These diverse audiences see a crisis for young people struggling with mental health issues.They also connect the dots clearly to schools and the need to expand access to mental health care within school settings.The nega-tive effects of social media on young peoples mental health i

6、s a top concern,including across party identification.5.When asked what would most improve the lives of children in the U.S.,voters,parents,teens,and kids coalesce around education as the answer,volunteering terms like better education,improve the education system,and affordable college education.Th