Only 30% of 2023 respondents overall said having children was very important to them, compared with 59% in 1998 and 43% in 2019. Only 43% said marriage is very important (this question was not on the 2019 and 1998 surveys).
The poll, released March 27, was conducted earlier this month by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and funded by ‘The Wall Street Journal.’