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Population Profiles:
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Mom's the Word |
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Just how many moms are there in the United States today? About
75 million. Thirty-five million of them are in their childbearing years, age
15-44—and they're having less children. In 2000, only 11 percent of women at the end
of their childbearing years (40-44) had four or more children, compared with more than
three times that percentage in 1976. Nineteen percent of all women, ages 40-44, have no
children at all—that's twice as high as women of the same age group in 1980 (10
percent). And 43 percent of women in their childbearing ages (15-44 years old) were
childless in 2000. Overall, in the year 2000, less was more: less children being born,
less mothers of infants in the workforce (decreased 4% since 1998), less mothers on
welfare (decreased 50% since 1996!), but more single moms. By the year 2000, single
mothers had increased from 3 million to 10 million from 1970. About 26% of all
parent-child situations consist of a single mother, up from 12 percent in 1970. Nearly 31
million households—about 3 in 10—are maintained by women with no husband
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Fast Fact(s): You're most likely to be a mother in Kentucky,
where 67% of women have at least one child. And, while the average number of children per
mother in the U.S. has dropped dramatically from 3 to 2 children in 20 years, Utah, a
state that produces the top teen birth rate, is the only state that continues to carry a
3-child average. |
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