Despite prominent debates about gender divides in recent years, just a third (32%) of the public feel there is tension between men and women in the country today.
A MORI poll has revealed one in five (19%) adults personally knows or has known someone who has experienced homelessness. The survey, commissioned by the national charity for homeless people, Crisis, to mark its 30th anniversary finds this figure rises to nearly three in ten (28%) of young people, 15-24 years.
Children would rather forfeit hobbies such as reading, playing with computer games and listening to music than eat up their vegetables, according to a MORI poll commissioned by the Cancer Research Campaign and frozen food giants Iceland. But the poll also shows that the majority of 7-12 year-olds will accept a bribe to get them to eat their greens if the stakes are high enough.
Consumers are expected to spend an average of £400 this Christmas with 11% expecting to spend more than £1000.
Sixty one per cent will pay for Christmas from their regular income and 28% will dip into their savings.
A recent MORI poll shows that one in three people (34%) believe that the law should be changed to give pregnant women
the right to an abortion in any circumstances. However, just over half (51%) disagree that the law should be so changed.
Almost one in five children are unable to name any shared activities undertaken with their fathers in the past week and they are much less likely to have undertaken any domestic and educational activities with their fathers than with their mothers.
