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PARENTS WORKING

Topics: Career; Children; Family; Marriage; Money; Work

Reference: Proverbs 29:15

The work status of parents with children has dramatically changed. According to the U.S. Census Bureau:

•     Fifty-one percent of families had both spouses employed in 1998. That was up from 33 percent in 1976.

•     Fifty-nine percent of married or single mothers with babies younger than a year old were employed at least part-time. That was up from 31 percent in 1976.

•     Seventy-three percent of mothers ages fifteen to forty-four with children older than a year in 1998 were employed. Of them, 52 percent were working full-time. There was no data available for 1976.

—Tamar Lewin, “Two-Income Families Now the Norm, Census Bureau Says,” The New York Times (October 23, 2000)