# @fivethirtyeight on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-03-16T21:07:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 538 (@FiveThirtyEight) — https://gondola.cc/FiveThirtyEight

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Democratic dads, it turns out, look a lot more like Republican moms and dads on issues like child benefits and parental leave. According to two surveys with large samples of parents, there’s less consensus among Democrats about some key issues facing parents than among Republicans. 

Parents mostly agree that raising children today is expensive, according to the conservative Institute for Family Studies, which conducted a poll with YouGov and the right-leaning Ethics and Public Policy Center on issues that affect families last fall. But parents are fairly divided about whether people should refrain from having kids if they can’t afford to raise them without government assistance: 56% agree, while 44% disagree. Some of the biggest divisions were between mothers and fathers. More than 60% of Democratic and GOP-affiliated dads agreed that people should not have kids if they can’t afford to raise them without government help, compared to less than half of Democratic moms and a smaller majority of Republican moms. Mothers — particularly Democratic moms — were also substantially likelier than dads to say that families today have it harder than families in the 1970s, and Democratic moms were substantially likelier than any other group to say that all families should be eligible for a full child benefit.

Some of the differences between Democratic dads and moms are shockingly large — particularly considering that there aren’t similar divides between Republican mothers and fathers. And Democratic dads are slightly more likely than Republican dads to say that families have it easier today than they did in the 1970s — while majorities of GOP dads, GOP moms, and Democratic moms say families today have it harder.

While majorities of all parents support a new program that would establish six weeks of paid parental leave for new mothers and three weeks of paid leave for fathers and adoptive parents, a majority (58%) of Democratic moms strongly support that parental leave program, compared to 42% of Democratic dads, 39% of Republican moms and 31% of GOP dads. // Read more from the survey in our link in bio.

#parenting #mom #dad #parentalleave #parents

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