Here's What Americans Consider Moral And Immoral

[farhanalee7]

Divorce, pre-marital sex, stem cell research, and abortion are becoming more morally acceptable to Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll.

The percentage of people who said these and other traditionally taboo issues are morally acceptable are at record highs, Gallup notes.

Below is a chart that displays the survey results, with an asterisk denoting the issues for which moral acceptability is at or near a record high:

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Some issues, such as affairs and cloning humans, are still considered unacceptable, but even those areas are gaining traction and have a higher rate of moral acceptability than in past years.

Surprisingly, barely half of respondents said gay or lesbian relations were morally acceptable, but that rate is still a record high for the issue.

The difference in these rates over the past few years isn't drastic — 2010 numbers are fairly similar — but some issues that were contentious among the American people about 10 years ago have become largely acceptable today.

Americans have largely come to accept divorce, premarital sex, and homosexual relations since 2001, when Gallup first conducted a moral acceptability poll.

In 2001, 59% of respondents considered divorce morally acceptable, 40% said homosexual relations were OK, and 53% approved of premarital sex. Today, those rates are at least 10 percentage points higher on each issue.



Taboo Issues Are Becoming More Morally Acceptable In America - Business Insider

 

[VCheng]

Please take it all with a large ladle of salt:

"Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 8-11, 2014, with a random sample of 1,028 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia."
New Record Highs in Moral Acceptability



A 1,000 people is simply not enough to make any conclusions that would be robust enough to apply nationally.

 

[farhanalee7]

Please take it all with a large ladle of salt:

"Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 8-11, 2014, with a random sample of 1,028 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia."
New Record Highs in Moral Acceptability



A 1,000 people is simply not enough to make any conclusions that would be robust enough to apply nationally.

For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Sample were Randomly taken and it is not that much unauthentic for results based on the sample of –518—national adults in Form A, the margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points.

 

[VCheng]

For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Sample were Randomly taken and it is not that much unauthentic for results based on the sample of –518—national adults in Form A, the margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points.

Still needs a large ladle of salt. Not a robust survey at all.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I have to agree that things have softened.

But sometimes things aren't as black and white as it first seems. Take divorce. In the past you were stigmatized for being divorced. Now with horror stories of battered spouses and loveless marriages people are willing to cut them some slack as things obviously didn't work out. It's best if they divorce then live miserably.