MILLENNIALS A Portrait of Generation Next

This report represents the Pew Research Center’s most ambitious examination to date of America’s newest generation, the Millennials, many of whom have now crossed into adulthood.

The report sets out to compare the values, attitudes and behaviors of Millennials with those of today’s older adults. And to an extent older adults back when they were the age that Millennials are now.

MILLENIALS: A Portrait of Generation Next

A working mom doesn’t necessarily hurt child’s development, study finds

A new study finds that babies raised by working mothers don’t necessarily suffer cognitive setbacks, an encouraging finding that follows a raft of previous reports suggesting that women with infants were wiser to stay home.

Researchers at Columbia University say they are among the first to measure the full effect of maternal employment on child development — not just the potential harm caused by a mother’s absence from the home, but the prospective benefits that come with her job, including higher family income and better child care.

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