Senator Clinton and Chelsea stopped in Grafton Sunday, the birthplace of Mother’s Day. This particular Mother’s Day happens to be a special one for the city of Grafton.
That’s because its the 100th Anniversary of the holiday.
Mother’s day turns 100
The 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.
Source: Associated Press
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It may be 100 years in the US but other countries have been celebrating their moms for centuries. In the UK it has been celebrated since the 17th century and falls on a different day - the 4th Sunday of Lent.
Wow, I didn’t know that mother’s day is 100 years old. I thought it was a newer holiday. All of those statistics are really interesting. I didn’t know that there were that many single mothers.