CHICAGO, June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Census Bureau data show that there are more stay-at-home fathers caring for children under 6 than ever before.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a Chicago outplacement consultancy, said Monday its analysis of Census Bureau data indicates that trend is likely to continue.
There were 299,000 married-family households in the United States in which only the wife earned money outside the home and the father was at home with at least one child under the age of 6.
This figure was up 29 percent from March 1993, when 231,000 married-couple households were in this category.
Of the nearly 300,000 stay-at-home fathers counted in 2003, 98,000 had been at home caring for one or more family member for at least 52 weeks, according to the Census Bureau, which calculated this figure for the first time in 2003.
