According to a new Pew Research Center report, millennials are taking a different road from the rest of the adult population. Now those between ages 18 and 33 are relatively indifferent to organized politics and religion, are united by social media, weighed down by debt, suspicious of other people, in no hurry to get married, and optimistic about the future.Theyre also the most racially diverse population segment in America. In every dimension, they differ from todays older generations.The Pew Research Center survey shows that half the millennials now describe themselves as political independents, and close to three out of 10 say they belong to no religion. However, the majority vote Democrat and have a liberal point of view on many political and social issues, which range from belief in an activist government to support of same-sex marriage to the legalization of marijuana.At the same time, millennials keep their distance from another basic institution of society: marriage. Only 26 percent of this generation is married.These and other conclusions are based on a new Pew Research Center survey taken between February 14-23 among close to 2,000 adults across the country, including 617 millennial adults and from an analysis of other polls taken between 1990-2014.For the complete report, visit {Pew Social Trends;http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/}.
