US teens want good work and financial success more than marriage and kids

American teenagers today are less important for marrying and having children than in finding a job that satisfies and achieves financial success, shows a new study.

A survey of more than 1,300 teenagers aged 13 to 17 years and conducted a Pew research center found that 86% of respondents said they were extremely or very important for their work or career they use when they are adults. Only 36% said they took care of marriage, and only 30% said that children were important to them.

Responses to the topic of future life plans were widely agreed on sexes with one noticeable exception: 74%of the girls were 9 percent more often than boys to say that close friends are very important for them. And the researchers also observed some differences in race and ethnicity. Black and Latin American teens are faster than their white counterparts, to say that having a lot of money in the future is extremely or very important for them. Only 76% of black teenagers and 66% of Latin American teenagers said it, while only half of all white teenagers.

On the other hand, white teenagers, as a rule, gave priority to the presence of close friends in adulthood. Three -quarters of all white respondents said it was extremely or very important to them, compared to 64% of Latin American teenagers and 62% of black teenagers.

The Pew survey also covered many other topics that revealed more gender breaks. For example, he found that due to anxiety and depression in the gender, the first list of problems that respondents said that they see that their peers were dealing with most of the school.

Both girls and guys who receive good grades were called the main source of this pressure and then the pressure to “look good” and “fit socially”. Girls, however, are much more often than boys, say they feel pressure to look good and fit into socially – 55% and 45%, respectively, compared to 36% and 27% for boys.

The survey also showed significant gender differences in ambitions to attend college after high school. In total, 53%of respondents said they were planning to attend a four-year college when they graduate from high school, but within this number of girls 60%, they were much more likely than boys-on 46%. Boys, in turn, rather than girls say they intend to go to a professional school after graduating from high school that want to work full -time, or that they plan to join the military.

The Pew survey was conducted in September and October 2024.