Some Mother's Day Figures:
• In the United States, there are about 82.5 million mothers. (source: US Census Bureau)
• about 96% of American consumers take part in some way in Mother's Day (source: Hallmark)
• Mother's Day is widely reported as the peak day of the year for long distance telephone calls
• There are more than 23,000 florists in the United States with a total of more than 125,000 employees. Colombia is the leading foreign supplier of cut flowers and fresh flower buds to the US. California produces two-thirds of domestic production of cut flowers. (source: US Census Bureau)
• Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year for many restaurants
• Retailers report that Mother's Day is the second highest gift-giving holiday in the United States (Christmas is the highest).
• Most popular month for having babies in the US is August, and most popular weekday is Tuesday. (source: US Census Bureau)
• about twice as many young women were childfree in the year 2000 as in the 1950s (source: Ralph Fevre, The Guardian, Manchester, March 26, 2001)
• In the US, 82% of women ages 40-44 are mothers. This compares to 90% in 1976. (source: US Census Bureau)
• In Utah and Alaska, women on the average will have three children before the end of their childbearing years. Overall, the average in the United States is two. (source: US Census Bureau)
• In 2002, the 55% of American women with infant children were in the workforce, compared to 31% in 1976, and down from 59% in 1998. In 2002, there were 5.4 million stay-at-home mothers in the US. (source: US Census Bureau)
Mother's Day: What You Need to Know
- Ancient Celebrations of Mothers and Motherhood
- Mothering Sunday in Britain
- Mothers' Work Days
- Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day
- Anna Jarvis and Mother's Day
- Carnations, Anna Jarvis, and Mother's Day
- International Mother's Days Today
- Mother's Day Statistics
- Mother's Day Proclamations
- Famous Mothers
- Quotes on Mothers and Motherhood
- Ideas for Mother's Day (in the spirit of the originals)
- Motherhood in History
- Mother's Day - Index
Text copyright 1999-2005 © Jone Johnson Lewis
