Mom’s The Word!
I thought it may be fun to look at some possibly AMAZING statistics about Moms and Mother’s Day, reported by Phillips & Company on a radio station last year – judge for yourself – and let me know what you think or if you have any to add to it.
16 AMAZING Statistics About Moms And Mother’s Day
#1.) Moms are getting older and more educated. In 2008, 14% of new moms were 35 or older, and 10% were in their teens. Those numbers were the exact opposite in 1990: There were more moms in their teens back then.
#2.) In 2008, a record 41% of children were born to unmarried women. That’s up from 28% in 1990.
#3.) It’s split almost perfectly 50-50 . . . half of women say that they decided to have a child when the time was right, and half say pregnancy just kind of happened and they rolled with it.
#4.) Today, 54% of new mothers have at least some college education. That’s up from 41% 20 years ago in 1990.
#5.) The average mom has a life expectancy of 81. Unfortunately, the average age of widowhood is 55.
#6.) Women make 80% of the general purchasing decisions for their families . . . 93% of the food purchases . . . and even 65% of the auto purchases.
#7.) Americans buy 140 million cards for Mother’s Day . . . even though there are only about 83 million mothers in the country.
#8.) Mother’s Day is the third-biggest greeting card holiday in the U.S., behind Christmas and Valentine’s Day.
#9.) This year, Americans will spend $671 MILLION on Mother’s Day cards.
#10.) Behind the Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa holiday season, Mother’s Day is the second-biggest gift-giving holiday in the U.S.
#11.) This year, the average person will spend $126.90 on gifts, flowers, parties and meals for their mom on Mother’s Day . . . that’s about $3 more than last year.
#12.) People will spend $1.9 BILLION on flowers for Mother’s Day.
#13.) The most popular types of flowers for Mother’s Day are: Mixed bouquets, carnations, daffodils, roses, and tulips.
#14.) The total spending this year for Mother’s Day is $14.6 BILLION. To put things in perspective, that’s the same amount of money that was given to the auto industry in its bailout, or the value of California’s BOOMING medicinal marijuana industry.
#15.) Besides getting their mom or stepmom a gift, 20.6% get their wife a Mother’s Day gift. Also, 9.4% of people buy something for their daughter, 7.9% for their grandmother, 7.6% for their sister, 6.8% for a friend and 1.7% for their godmother.
#16.) 48% of people say they’re FACEBOOK FRIENDS with their mother.
Phillips & Company, Interview,Phillips and Company 5/7/2010 8:40 am
http://y98.radio.com/2010/05/07/16-amazing-statistics-about-moms-and-mothers-day/#ixzz1Kmf2cxjw
