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Our nation is facing many challenging issues related to children and families. How do we reduce poverty? Make child care more affordable? Improve family health outcomes? Prepare the next generation of leaders? Provide children and families with the community resources they need to thrive? Harness artificial intelligence (AI) for the good of our children and avoid its pitfalls?
As an applied research organization, questions like these are at the heart of Child Trends’ mission. Our work from 2024 includes valuable research and resources to wrestle with these questions. Here are eight trends we’re paying close attention to.
Slightly removed from the worst of the pandemic, we have better data on just how hard COVID-19 was on families. For example, in 2020, 6 in 10 Hispanic families with children experienced hardships meeting their basic needs. Today, many families continue to struggle with bills, food prices, medical needs, and the double whammy of high housing and child care costs.
In 2024, Child Trends researchers looked at ways to improve families’ economic stability. Topics included helping the 3.1 million undergraduate students in America who are also parents finish degrees to help them better provide for their families long term, creating workplaces that attract and engage the next generation of employees, and retooling job benefits and public assistance to support greater stability for the quarter of U.S. children who have immigrant parents.
The Child Opportunity Index 3.0 examined the 100 metropolitan areas with the most children. In those cities, 60 percent of Black children, 58 percent of Hispanic kids, and 57 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native children live in “lower opportunity neighborhoods.” Child Trends researchers are exploring how all children can grow up in communities where opportunity is abundant.
For example, we studied how Black families define a set of assets known as protective community resources (PCRs), the benefits they see from PCRs, and the risks they associate with limited access to PCRs. Our researchers also studied how communities can better support math success for Black and Latino youth with things like out-of-school time academic programs. A goal of our population-focused research is to identify ways to promote more equitable outcomes for all children by expanding access to the community resources they and their families need to thrive.
LGBTQ+ is an inclusive acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and additional identities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that a total of 20.5 percent of young people identify as gay or lesbian (3.2%), bisexual (12.1%), or questioning (5.2%). An additional 3.9 percent identify as “other.” This total (24.4%) is triple the percentage among the population over age 18, according to Gallup data. This discrepancy suggests that sexual education curricula developed decades ago may not be inclusive for a significant portion of young people today.
To support those who work in this area, Child Trends researchers examined ways to make sex ed more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ population. In addition, our experts continue to share adolescent sexual and reproductive health research to youth-supporting professionals via the website Activate.
A Harvard survey found that 51 percent of young people ages 14 to 22 have used AI generative tools. The technology’s proliferation is ushering in a world where students need to be AI-literate learners and, eventually, AI-competent citizens. Child Trends developed the AI-Class Framework to help safely and effectively integrate AI technology into teaching and student learning. We also offered recommendations for regulating AI to minimize its risks to children and families.
As Child Trends continues exploring these and other stories, we invite you to subscribe to our e-newsletters and be the first to know when we release new data-informed work.
Haugen, M. (2024). 8 trends to know about children and families for 2025. Child Trends. DOI: 10.56417/1201r7567v
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