Motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.
Birth to unmarried women used to be called illegitimacy, now it is the new normal. The share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold after steadily rising for five decades: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
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Working mothers are healthier and happier.
Mothers who work are healthier than those who are not employed, at least when their children are very young, a new study finds.
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Women do about 10 hours more multitasking in the home each week.
Even thought men may be helping more in the home, working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study.
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Typical mother puts in shifts with more than 10 hours a day dedicated to family activities such as cleaning up after the children , helping with homework and bedtime rituals.
This may not come as a surprise for many women — mothers give 70 hours a week to household chores, a study has found.
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Stress and financial strain may take toll.
Moms who had children outside of marriage may be at risk for poor health later in life. Thousands of mothers who participated in a 30-year study, but the ones who had delivered children outside of marriage reported being less healthy when they reached their 40s than the ones who had postponed motherhood until after marriage.
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This kind of family structure is found at all levels of income and education.
One in five of all American moms have kids who have different birth fathers, a new study shows. And when researchers look only at moms with two or more kids, that figure is even higher: 28 percent have kids with at least two different men.
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