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Study Reports More Stay-At-Home Moms

Anne Artley |
April 9, 2014 | 1:15 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

 

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Stay-at-home mothers have increased since the 1990s, due in part to rising immigration and growing climate of uncertainty about the effect of working mothers on young children. 

A Pew Research Study found that mothers who do not work outside the home grew from 23% in 1999 to 29% in 2012.

Married stay-at-home moms with working husbands make up two-thirds of this group. But some do not participate in the workforce because they cannot find work, are disabled or are enrolled in school.

More immigrants are also more likely to stay home with children: 33% are mothers as opposed to 20% of American citizens.

Though society has grown more accepting of working mothers, sixty percent of Americans think that having a parent at home is more healthy for a child.

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