The FINANCIAL -- Half of Americans nationwide now believe that today’s children are worse off than those of the previous generation.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 30% of American Adults believe the quality of life for children today is better than it was a generation ago. Fifty-one percent (51%) say children’s quality of life is worse today, while 12% believe the two generations are about the same.
The new results are more pessimistic than those found in January of last year, when 44% said children’s quality of life was worse and 34% said it was better.
Among adults with children living at home with them, 49% say their quality of life is worse today than past generations, while 34% say it is better. Those without children at home are even more negative: 52% say quality of life is worse today, while just 27% say the opposite.
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on June 29-30, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
Adults over 50 and those under 30 are the most likely to believe today’s children have a worse quality of life than past generations. Women believe that to be true more strongly than men.
Separate polling finds that just 24% of adults believe today’s children will be better off than their parents, but 56% disagree.
Eighty-three percent (83%) believe young children spend too much time on their computers and other electronic devices.
Americans almost universally agree that it’s better for children to grow up in a home with both their parents and feel strongly that such children have an edge over those whose parents are divorced.
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