New research from Ipsos in the UK, conducted in partnership with JOE media, details perceptions and behaviours around pornography, as well as wider views around historical conversational taboo topics such as religion and political views.
Ipsos has been examining attitudes to abortion on behalf of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) via surveys since 1997. These findings have also been trended with a 1980 MORI question on abortion from a survey for the Sunday Times.
The public believe that better parenting is key to reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in Britain according to a new poll by the Ipsos Social Research Institute. A failure to bring up children properly is felt the main cause of anti-social behaviour today and the public are keen for steps to be taken. The large majority believe that parents should be held responsible for the bad behaviour of their children and be made to take help if their child is involved in anti-social behaviour. Two-thirds of parents say they would personally find help from outside their friends and family useful in dealing with difficult or troublesome behaviour of their children.
Television parenting programmes are having a powerful influence on parenting techniques in Great Britain, research by Ipsos reveals. But the research — for the National Family and Parenting Institute — also shows a large proportion of those who view such programmes (37%) believe that such programmes sensationalise family problems for public entertainment.
More than two-thirds (68%) of Scottish adults think it is harder to bring up children now than it was when they were young, according to new research from MORI Scotland. The research, for Parenting Across Scotland, shows older adults most likely to think this. Pressure to buy, lack of respect for adult authority, concerns about child safety and the difficultly of balancing work and family life are identified as the main causes of parents' increased difficulty.
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'.
