by the Washington Post
Maybe you’ve heard somewhere that no one eats dinner together anymore. There’s even some pushing the idea that instead of scrambling to eat dinner together, families should aim for breakfast. And maybe you believed that family dinners were dead, based on your household’s experience.
Well, it’s not true. Not nationally, anyway. And not, for that matter, in just about every state in the country.
Across the United States, roughly 88 percent of Americans still say they frequently eat dinner with other members of their household, according to a new study by the Corporation for National and Community Service. While that percentage has fallen in recent years—by roughly 2 percent since 2011—it’s still remarkably high.
Perhaps even more surprising is how consistently respondents in different regions report the same overwhelming response. In more than 20 states, the percentage of people who said they frequently ate with people they lived with was at or above 90 percentage (when rounding half percentage points up); 31 states sport a higher than average rate. And in only one—New Mexico—does the percentage dip below 80 percent.
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