Unusual "motherly" information
81% of women 40 to 44 years old are mothers. In 1980, 90 percent of women in that age group were mothers.
67% of women in Kentucky, ages 15 to 44, are mothers. This is among the highest rates in the nation. The national average is 57 percent.
11% of women end their childbearing years with four or more children, compared with 36 percent in 1976.
24.8 is the median age of women when they give birth for the first time - meaning one-half are above this age and one-half are below. The median age has risen nearly three years since 1970.
A woman becomes pregnant most easily at the age of eighteen or nineteen, with little real change until the mid twenties. There is then a slow decline to age thirty-five, a sharper decline to age forty-five and a very rapid decline as the women nears menopause.
The odds of a woman delivering twins is 1-in-33. Her odds of having triplets or other multiple births was approximately 1-in-539.
In humans, most multiple births involve twins - about once in every thirty-three births. By contrast, triplets naturally occur about once in every 7900 births and quadruplets about once in every 705,000 births.
August is the most popular month in which to have a baby, with more than 360,000 births taking place that month in 2001.
Tuesday is the most popular day of the week in which to have a baby, with an average of more than 12,000 births taking place on Tuesdays during 2001.
Subject: Results of May 1st mexican boycott
On May 1st, as a result of the Mexican boycott the national retailers reported 4.2% lower sales for the day, with a 67.8% reduction in shoplifting and 80% increase of litter in the streets.