Author: WENDY WANG, KIM PARKER and PAUL TAYLOR
Source: Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends
Publication Date: 29-May-13
Link: Breadwinner Moms
Stephan: I have read all kinds of nonsense being written and said about this study. I always find it useful to go to the actual research report.
There is a great deal of information in this study, and I encourage you to read it carefully, and to click through and see the many charts that accompany the text. For me, the main take away is that American society is undergoing long term and profound change. The country of the American myth is disappearing.
SDT-2013-05-breadwinner-moms-1-1A record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The share was just 11% in 1960.
These ‘breadwinner moms