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Mother's Day holiday celebrates 100th anniversary
Comments 0 | Recommend 0The Mother's Day holiday celebrates it's 100th anniversary this year. The U.S. Census Bureau provides the following numbers about mom's in the United States:
-55 percent of mothers are between the ages of 15 and 44.
-81 percent of women between the ages of 40 and 44 are mothers. In 1976, 90 percent of women in that age group were mothers.
-94.1 births per 1,000 is the number of births in Utah in 2006, the nation's highest. Vermont was the lowest with 52.2. West Virginia's was 58.3
-10.4 million single mothers live with children younger than 18, up from 3.4 million in 1970.
-83 percent of mothers who went back to work within a year of their child's birth returned to the same employer.
-5.6 million is the number of stay-at-home moms in 2006.
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