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On Reddit, 44% of all posts in r/Parenting mentioned one or more of these issues:
- division of child care responsibilities between parents
- kids' technology use
- financial challenges of raising a child

While many parents who visit these communities say these spaces make them feel more informed (63%) or connected to other parents (48%), these experiences are not universally positive. 38% say parenting communities make them feel overwhelmed by all the information they need to know.

Explore the full report covering South Africans’ views of their political parties and leaders, their attitudes toward other countries and international organizations, and more:

Public opinion of the ANC rebounded in early 2025 following the 2024 general election. This marks a turnaround from recent years, when support for the ANC steadily declined.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC’s leader, was also the most popular of the major party leaders in the survey, with 63% of South Africans expressing a favorable view of him and just 36% sharing a negative view.

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If the U.S. had 100 people, there would be about as many Protestants living in the South (20) as in all other parts of the country combined.

Among the 100 people, 25 would be White and Protestant, and 19 would be White and religiously unaffiliated. Seven would be Black and Protestant, including some Black Protestants who identify with evangelical or mainline denominations. Another seven would be Hispanic Catholics.

Among the 100 adults, there would be 34 Christian women and 28 Christian men. Other groups’ gender makeup would be roughly equal.

More Christians would be ages 50 and older than under 50. The age balance would be reversed for religious “nones,” with 20 under age 50 and fewer than 10 ages 50 and older.

If the U.S. had 100 people, 62 of them would be Christians.

More on South Africans’ attitudes toward other countries and international organizations, views of their country’s influence in the world, and how they see their political parties and leaders:

And more South Africans say that it is more important to have strong economic ties with China (50%) than say the same about the U.S. (33%). The gap was smaller in 2019 (39% vs. 42%).

When asked which is the world’s leading economic power – the U.S., China, the EU or Japan – South Africans increasingly recognize China as such (42 % vs. 33% in 2023).