More U.S. moms are staying at home with kids: study

More American mothers are staying at home with their children, a trend driven in part by rising immigration and women unable to find jobs, a Pew analysis released on Tuesday showed. The category of stay-at-home mothers with children under 18 includes women who are at home to care for their families and mothers who cannot find work, are disabled or in school, the Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data said. About two-thirds of stay-at-home mothers are married with working husbands, down from 85 percent in 1970 as U.S. marriage rates have fallen and the number of single mothers has risen, the analysis said. The figure has fallen from 41 percent in 1970 as more mothers went to work and the number of single mothers went up, the analysis said Six percent of stay-at-home mothers said they were home with their children because they could not find a job, up from 1 percent in 2000.