The average mom has 209 of these. What?
A: Facebook friends
According to the second Moms and Media survey (for moms born between ’77 and ’94) 8 in 10 moms are on Facebook. Last year the moms averaged 151 friends, this year it’s 209.
72% of moms are frustrated by Facebook format changes.
How many children did the woman who created Mother’s Day have?
A: None
Anna Jarvis never married and never had children. In 1905, she organized the first Mother’s Day service at the church where her mom had been a Sunday school teacher. Towards the end of her life, Anna said she wished she’d never started the day because it became so commercialized.
What percentage of women say their Mom is their favourite parent?
A: 40
According to a Women’s Health magazine survey about women and their moms.
24% say they are “Daddy’s girls.” Nearly half of women say their mom is their best friend and the average woman talks to her mom once a week.
A website specializing in this reported a more than 300% increase in traffic the day after Mother’s Day. What kind of website?
A: Cheating/Having an affair
Ashley Madison reported a 321 percent increase in traffic after Mother’s Day. The president of the website says 68% were stay-at-home moms who didn’t get the attention and love they wanted on Mother’s Day.
The record for the longest time between these two events is more than 41 years. What?
A: The birth of two children
Elizabeth Ann Buttle holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19, 1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.
The shortest interval is 208 days.
