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A report, from the Surface Transportation Policy Project, based on federal transportation data, reveals women spend extraordinary amounts of time behind the wheel. Married women with kids drive an average of 66 minutes a day while single moms average 75 minutes. Historically men have been viewed as ...read more
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41% of 1st births to women ages 15 to 29, between ’90 and ’94 were by out-of-wedlock mothers. 70% of Americans favor prayer in public schools. ...read more
Motherhood carries a steep price tag, mostly in lost wages and benefits, says Ann Crittenden in The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. She estimates that the "mommy tax" exceeds $1 million for many college-educated women, not including other ...read more
Only 1 out of 3 church leaders models Christian discipleship to their church family. (Foster Letter ...read more
In a survey of 1,000 college students on 160 campuses by efollett.com, 76% said their mother is the living woman they most admire. ...read more
Traditional Family Comeback A Myth: Headlines claiming women are leaving the workforce to become full-time moms have periodically appeared during recent years, but hard data just doesn’t back it up. The traditional family, with Mom at home full-time while Dad works shrank from 43% in ’80 to 27% in ...read more
Girls without fathers in their lives are 2.5 times more likely to get pregnant and 53% more likely to commit suicide. (Foster ...read more
Motherhood In Newsweek’s Jane Bryant Quinn notes “a rising proportion of young women appear to be choosing motherhood over career.” Her theory on why,” It’s one of prosperity’s side effects.” A booming economy has driven up young men’s wages, making a second income a ...read more
Retro Twist: For a growing number of affluent families, the husband is earning enough for the wife to become a stay-at-home mom. Nearly 50% of households earning between $250,000 and $499,999 have only one bread-winner, up from just 38% 6 years earlier. ...read more
66% of all U.S. mothers with children age 3 or less are working, compared with 50% in ’90 and 42% in ’80. (Foster ...read more
Moms At Work The U.S. Census reports that a record of 59% of mothers with infants at home in ’98 went back to work, up from 31% in ’76. For the 1st time, dual income families are now in the majority; only 24% of married couples with ...read more
Moms: The most popular Mothers Day gifts this year were cards (47%), flowers (36%) and gardening items, such as plants or equipment ...read more
Men spend more on their mothers than women do, $45 to $29 respectively. (Foster Letter ...read more
An average of 3.4 hours is spent cleaning the house per week. (Foster Letter ...read more
An adult who has never been married heads 17% of U.S. households with children under 18. (Foster ...read more
A Mother’s Place Is At Home: 66% of American women with preschool children—and 56% of those with infants less than a year old—are in the labor force, but attitudes toward working mothers have changed little. Various research reports from the Lucile Packard foundation find that 75%-80% of Americans ...read more
Women purchase 97% of spiritual growth resources for families. (Foster Letter ...read more
Mom At Home: According to the Census Bureau, fewer mothers are heading back to work during the first year of their child’s life. 55% of the 3.9 million women age 15 to 44 who gave birth between 7/99 and 6/00 returned to work. That ...read more
The number of working U.S. mothers peaked in ’98 at 59%. In ’00 it dropped to 55%. (Foster Letter ...read more
Ladies Waiting: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average age at which American women are having their first child has climbed to an all-time high of 25.1—up ...read more
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