Stay-at-home moms today are more likely to be younger, lower income, Hispanic or foreign born than their working counterparts.
New census data collected by the U.S. government on families and households compared married stay-at-home mothers with other married women — who either worked themselves, had husbands who didn’t work or did not cite caring for home and family as the reason they didn’t work.
There were 24 million of the couples with children under the age of 15 in 2007. Of them, 24 percent included a stay-at-home mother, which the census defined as a woman who said her husband worked while she stayed home in order to care for her family.
The stay-at-home moms were also more likely to have younger children and less education than working mothers.
Associated Press
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