CB01-FF.05
April 30, 2001
Mother's Day, 2001: May 13
How Many Mothers -- How Many Children
35 million
Estimated number of mothers 15-to-44 years old in 1998.
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81%
Proportion of women 40-to-44 years old in 1998 who were mothers. In 1976,
90 percent of that age group were mothers.
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64%
Approximate proportion of women ages 15 to 44 in Alabama, Alaska, Idaho,
Mississippi and Wyoming who were mothers in 1998. The rates in these
states were the highest in the nation.
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1.9
Average number of children women 40-to-44 years old in 1998 had given birth
to by the end of their childbearing years. In 1976, the number was 3.1.
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10%
Percent of women ages 40 to 44 in 1998 who will end their childbearing
years with four or more children. In 1976, 36 percent of women ages 40 to
44 had four or more children.
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24.5
The median age for first-time mothers, according to a 1999 survey.
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1,623
The number of births to every 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in Idaho, as of
1998. This is among the highest birth rates in the nation.
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40%
Proportion of births taking place in 1998 that were the mother's first.
Another 33 percent were the second; 16 percent, the third; and 11 percent,
the fourth or more.
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25,000
Number of births nationwide in 1997 attended by physicians, midwives or
others that did not occur in hospitals, down from 35,000 in 1990.
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1-in-35
The odds of a woman's delivering twins in 1998. Her odds of having triplets
or other multiple births was about 1-in-520.
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Working, Single and Teen Moms
59%
Of the 3.7 million women with infants under the age of 1 in 1998, the
percentage who were in the labor force. This was a record high and almost
double the 31 percent participation rate of 1976.
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73%
The percentage of the 31.3 million mothers between 15 and 44 (without
children under the age of 1) who were in the labor force in 1998.
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5.5 million
Number of never-married mothers age 15 to 44 in 1998. They represented 23
percent of all never-married women in this age group.
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9.8 million
The number of single mothers in the United States in 1998, unchanged since
1995 after nearly tripling over the previous quarter century. Women comprised
about five-sixths of all single parents.
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42%
Percent of single mothers in 1998 who had never married.
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17%
Proportion of single mothers who were raising three or more of their
own children in 1998.
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948,000
Number of teen mothers age 15 to 19 in 1998. They comprised 10
percent of all women this age.
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Older Mothers
117,000
The number of women ages 40 to 44 who in 1998 had given birth in the
previous year. This represented 1 percent of all women in this age
group.
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29,000
The number of women ages 40 to 44 who in 1998 gave birth in the previous
year and whose baby was their first ever.
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Mother's Remembered
$212 million
Value of shipments of Mother's Day cards in 1997, up from $148 million in
1992. Fourteen greeting card publishers shipped $100,000 or more of these
cards. For the sake of comparison, shipments of Mother's Day cards
exceeded those of Easter cards ($116 million) but lagged somewhat behind
Valentine's Day cards ($277 million) and considerably behind Christmas
cards ($571 million).
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