{"id":17237,"date":"2010-06-18T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/the-typical-modern-mom\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:42:56","slug":"the-typical-modern-mom","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2010\/06\/18\/the-typical-modern-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Typical Modern Mom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The demography of American motherhood looks a lot different than it did roughly 20 years ago. From 1990 to 2008 the proportion of new mothers ages 35 or older rose to 14% from 9%; the nonwhite share rose to 47% from 35%; the unmarried share rose to 41% from 28%; and mothers with some college education rose to 54% from 41%. But these rising motherhood traits hardly describe a typical modern mom. In fact, less than 1% of mothers of newborns are unmarried, nonwhite women who are ages 35 and older and have at least some college education according to a Pew Research Center analysis of 2006 statistics. A combination of any three of these traits (older, unmarried and educated, for example) still accounts for just a few percent of new mothers. In fact, only by combining just two of the traits can double-digit shares be achieved. While there is no typical mother who embodies all four \u201crising\u201d demographic traits, in some cases there is a typical mother based on age, marital status, race or ethnicity and education. For example, 40% of births in 2006 were to white, married women; no other group accounts for even half that share. Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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