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.
According to a MORI Social Research Institute survey for Organon around two in five women (43%) on the pill, are not sure which pill type they are actually taking. The two types of pill available are combined contraceptives (containing oestrogen and progestogen), commonly referred to as COCs, and progestogen-only pills (POPs), sometimes termed 'the mini-pill'.
MORI undertook a survey of home-owning parents with adult children (aged 18 to 29 years) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) in March 2004. The objective of the research was to look at homeowner perceptions of the housing needs of their adult sons and daughters, and to assess their attitudes towards giving them financial support.
The majority of the British public think that it is wrong for someone to hit a child in their family (56%), and even more think it is wrong to hit an adult in the family (84%). When asked about legal protection, just over half (57%) say that children and adults should be given the same legal protection from being hit in the family home, while another 29% think that children should be given more legal protection than adults. Following on from this, seven in ten (71%) would support a change in the law to give children and adult family members the same legal protection from being hit.
In wave 17 Nestlé UK asked children in 33 secondary schools about their views on reading. Encouragingly, young people generally have a positive attitude towards reading. Girls are much more positive than boys.
This year's UNITE Student Living Report 2004 is the most comprehensive, independent and in-depth study of the views, concerns and aspirations of today's full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK.
More than a third (36%) of 11-15 year olds are worried that they might put on too much weight over Christmas and three quarters (74%) anticipate that their diet will be fairly unhealthy during the holidays, according to research conducted by the MORI Social Research Institute.
Half of British parents (51%) feel the Government does not listen to the needs of parents and children, according to new research from MORI. The survey, commissioned by the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI), is for the report Making Britain Family Friendly.
