Stay-at-Home Moms Rise in Reversal of Modern Family Trend

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By John McCormick Apr 8, 2014 10:39 AM ET

American mothers are reversing a historical trend and increasingly staying home.

The share of mothers who don’t work outside the home rose to 29 percent in 2012, up from a modern-era low of 23 percent in 1999, according to a report released today by the Pew Research Center. The increase follows declines recorded most years from 1970 to 1999 as more women entered the workplace, driven both by a sense of empowerment and financial demands.

More recently the worst recession since the Great Depression kept some mothers out of the workforce as they struggled to get jobs and others found it more advantageous to stay home after weighing the cost of child care against wages.

“The majority of mothers would like to be in the workplace,” said D’Vera Cohn, lead author of the report, which used a variety of census and survey data. “There may be a ceiling to how much stay-at-home motherhood can increase.”

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1. I think a stay at home parent is a great idea

whether it be the father or mother. one of the major factors is rightly addressed here... the cost of childcare being weighed against the income that can be made. we have friends who recently realized that they were actually able to have more money in hand at the end of the month after HE quit his job to stay home.

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2. by the time a minimum wage worker pays for child care

they end up working for nothing.