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According to the 2000 census, of the slightly more than 3.7 million people over the age of 25 in Tennessee, 76 percent have earned a high school diploma or higher, 44 percent have some college, nearly 20 percent have earned a college degree, and 6.8 percent hold advanced degrees. All of these figures are lower than the national average. About one-half of Tennessee's 1.5 million families had children under the age of 18, with an average of 1.75 children per family.
With a population in 2006 of slightly more than 6 million, Tennessee reported 84,308 births, a crude birth rate of 14 percent. From 1997 to 2006, the percent of out-of-wedlock births increased 5.1 percent for mothers aged 10–17, 21.5 percent for mothers 18–19, and 32.3 ...
- History of Motherhood
- Bible, Mothers in the
- Clytemnestra
- History of Motherhood: 1000 to 1500
- History of Motherhood: 1500 to 1750
- History of Motherhood: 1750 to 1900
- History of Motherhood: 1900 to Present
- History of Motherhood: 2000 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E.
- History of Motherhood: American
- History of Motherhood: Ancient Civilizations
- History of Motherhood: Middle Ages
- History of Motherhood: Renaissance
- Jocasta
- Medea
- Myth, Mothers in
- Issues in Motherhood
- “Bad” Mothers
- Abortion
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attachment Parenting
- Bisexuality
- Body Image
- Celebrity Motherhood
- Child Poverty
- Class and Mothering
- Code Pink
- Conflict Zones, Mothering in
- Co-Parenting
- Cybermothering
- Employment and Motherhood
- Empowered Mothering
- Ethics of Care
- Ethics, Maternal
- Freud, Sigmund
- Girlhood and Motherhood
- Lone Mothers
- Maternal Absence
- Maternal Agency
- Media, Mothers in
- Momism Generation of Vipers
- Motherhood Denied
- Mothering as Work
- Mothering Versus Motherhood
- Mothers' Pensions/Allowances
- Mothers Who Leave
- Myths of Motherhood: Good/Bad
- New Momism
- Nonresidential Mother
- Older Mothers
- Opt-Out Revolution
- Peace and Mothering
- Planned Parenthood
- Poverty and Mothering
- Pronatalism
- Prostitution and Motherhood
- Race and Racism
- Refugee Mothers
- Reproductive Justice/Rights Movements
- Second Shift/Third Shift
- Security Mom
- SisterSong
- Slavery and Mothering
- Social Action and Motherhood
- Spock, Benjamin
- Taxation and Motherhood
- Technology and Motherhood
- Teen Mothers
- Terrorism and Mothering
- Third Wave Foundation
- Transgender Parenting
- Transracial Mothering
- Unions and Mothers
- Unpaid Work
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- War and Mothers
- Welfare and Mothering
- Welfare Warriors
- Work and Mothering
- Working-Class Mothers
- Motherhood and Family
- Absentee Mothers
- Adolescent Children
- Adult Children
- African American Mothers
- Alpha Mom
- Beta Mom
- Birth Mothers
- Care Giving
- Child Abuse
- Child Custody and the Law
- Childcare
- Childhood
- Childlessness
- Children
- Community Mothering
- Co-Mothering
- Dating and Single Mothers
- Daughter-Centricity
- Daughters and Mothers
- Daycare
- Disabled Mothers
- Discipline of Children
- Divorce
- Education and Mothering
- Empty Nest
- Family
- Family Planning
- Family Values
- Fathers and Fathering
- Father's Rights Movement
- Foster Mothering
- Full-Time Mothering
- Grandmothers and Grandmothering
- Grief, Loss of Child
- Home Birth
- Home Schooling
- Homeplace
- Housework
- Humor and Motherhood
- Incarcerated Mothers
- Incest
- Infant Mortality
- Infanticide
- Infertility
- Intensive Mothering
- Internet and Mothering
- Lesbian Mothering
- LGBTQ Families and Motherhood
- Marriage
- Maternity Leave
- Matriarchy
- Mental Illness and Mothers
- Midlife Mothering
- Military Mothers
- Mother Role Versus Wife Role
- Mother-in-Law
- Motherless Daughters
- Motherline
- Mothers and Multiple Partners
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- Nannies
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- Soccer Mom
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- Stepmothers
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- Motherhood and Health
- Advice Literature for Mothers
- AIDS/HIV and Mothering
- Alcoholism
- Anxiety
- Artificial Insemination
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Autism
- Becoming a Mother
- Birth Control
- Birth Goddesses
- Breastfeeding
- Breastmilk
- Cancer and Motherhood
- Childbirth
- Depression
- Displacement
- Domestic Labor
- Doula
- Drug Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Emotions
- Environments and Mothering
- Eugenics
- Fertility
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Guilt
- Learning Disabilities
- Maternal Alienation
- Maternal Bodies
- Maternal Desire
- Maternal Eroticism
- Maternal Feminism
- Maternal Health
- Maternal Power/Powerlessness
- Maternal Practice
- Miscarriage
- Mommy Brain
- Mother Blame
- Mothering and Creativity
- Mothering Children With Disabilities
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
- Natural Mothering
- Nursing (Profession) and Motherhood
- Obesity and Motherhood
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Overwhelmed Mothers
- Postmaternity
- Postpartum Depression
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal Health Care
- Reproduction
- Reproduction of Mothering
- Reproductive Labor
- Reproductive Technologies
- Sexuality and Mothering
- Sons and Mothers
- Sterilization
- Stillbirth
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Surrogate Motherhood
- Violence Against Mothers/Children
- Wet Nursing
- Motherhood and Society
- Activist Mothers of the Disappeared
- Adoption
- Angel in the House
- Art and Mothering
- Autobiographies
- Brain, Child
- Buddhism and Mothering
- Carework
- Caribbean Mothers
- Chicana Mothering
- Christianity and Mothers
- Cultural Bearing
- Demeter Press
- DES Mothers
- Dramatic Arts, Mothers in
- Earth Mothers
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethnic Mothers
- European Union
- Fairy Tales, Mothers in
- Film, Mothers in
- First Nations
- Gift Economy
- Hinduism
- Hip Mama
- Honduras
- Immigrant Mothers
- Islam and Motherhood
- Jewish Mothers
- Judaism and Motherhood
- La Leche League
- Latina Mami
- Law and Mothering
- Literary Mama
- Literature, Mothers in
- Mainstreet Moms
- Mamapalooza
- Mamazon
- Mammy
- Mask of Motherhood
- Maternal Wall
- Mexican Spirituality and Motherhood
- Midwifery
- Migration and Mothers
- Militarism and Mothering
- Million Mom March
- Modernism and Motherhood
- Mommy Blogs
- Mommy Lit
- Mommy Track
- Mommy Wars
- MomsRising
- Mother Centers International Network for Empowerment
- Mother Country
- Mother Earth
- Mother Goddess
- Mother Jones
- Mother Nature
- Mother Wit
- Mother-Daughter Project
- Motherhood Memoirs
- Motherhood Movement
- Motherhood Penalty
- Motherhood Poets
- Motherhood Project
- Motherhood Studies
- Mothers Acting Up (MAU)
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
- Mothers and More (MAM)
- Mothers Are Women (MAW)
- Mother's Day
- Mothers Movement Online (MMO)
- Mothers of the Intifada
- Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- Mothers Ought To Have Equal Rights (MOTHERS)
- Museum of Motherhood
- Music and Mothers
- National Association of Mothers' Centers
- National Organization for Women
- Native Americans
- Nazi Germany
- Organizations
- Other Mothering
- Peace Movements and Mothering
- Poetry, Mothers in
- Poland
- Politics and Mothers
- Popular Culture and Mothering
- Preschool Children
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- Religion and Mothering
- Republican Motherhood
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- Rural Mothers
- Save the Mothers
- Sociology of Motherhood
- South Asian Mothers/Mothering
- Spirituality and Mothering
- Sports and Mothers
- Starhawk
- Suffrage Movement and Mothers
- Teachers as Mothers
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- Wicca and Mothering
- Zines
- Motherhood around the World
- Afghanistan
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- Cameroon
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- Cape Verde
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- Chile
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- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
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- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia (Nation)
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece (and Ancient Greece)
- Guam
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- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
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- Indonesia
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- Namibia
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- Somalia
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- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
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- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
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- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Motherhood in the United States
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
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- Maryland
- Massachusetts
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- Texas
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- Virginia
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- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Motherhood Studies
- Aboriginal Mothering
- Academe and Mothering
- Activism, Maternal
- African Diaspora
- Ambivalence, Maternal
- Animal Species and Motherhood
- Anthropology of Mothering
- Anti-Racist Mothering
- Association for Research on Mothering
- Biography and Motherhood
- Birth Imagery, Metaphor, and Myth
- Capitalism and Motherhood
- Civil Rights Movement and Motherhood
- Communism and Motherhood
- Consumerism and Motherhood
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Motherhood
- Dialectics of Reproduction
- Ecofeminism and Mothering
- Economics of Motherhood
- Economy and Motherhood
- Ectogenesis
- Essentialism and Mothering
- Feminism and Mothering
- Feminist Mothering
- Feminist Theory and Mothering
- Future of Motherhood
- Genocide and Motherhood
- Globalization and Mothering
- Idealization of Mothers
- Infidelity and Motherhood
- Institution of Motherhood
- Intergenerational Trauma
- International Mothers Network
- Journal for the Association for Research on Mothering
- Maternal Abject (Kristeva)
- Maternal Authenticity
- Maternal Künstlerroman
- Maternal Mortality
- Maternal Pedogogy
- Maternal Subjectivities
- Maternal Thinking (Ruddick)
- Matricide
- Matrifocality
- Matrilineal
- Matrophobia
- Matroreform
- Mauritius
- Mother Outlaws (Group)
- Mother Outlaws (Rich)
- Mother/Daughter Plot (Hirsch)
- Motherhood Endowment (Rathbone)
- Motherself
- Nationalism and Motherhood
- New French Feminism and Motherhood
- Noncustodial Mother
- Paganism (New Paganism) and Mothering
- Patriarchal Ideology of Motherhood
- Philosophy and Motherhood
- Postcolonialism and Mothering
- Price of Motherhood (Crittenden)
- Psychoanalysis and Motherhood
- Psychology of Motherhood
- Scientific Motherhood
- Self-Identity
- Semiotic, Maternal (Kristeva)
- Sensitive Mothering (Walkerdine and Lucey)
- Social Construction of Motherhood
- Social Reproduction
- Transnationalism
- Waring, Marilyn
- Warner, Judith (Motherhood Religion)
- Prominent Mothers
- Adams, Abigail (Smith)
- Allende, Isabel
- Atwood, Margaret
- Benjamin, Jessica
- Bernard, Jesse
- Blakely, Mary Kay
- Bombeck, Erma
- Brooks, Gwendeolyn
- Buchanan, Andrea
- Bush, Barbara
- Caplan, Paula J.
- Chodorow, Nancy
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Clifton, Lucille
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham
- Collins, Patricia Hill
- Columbus, Christopher, Mother of
- Crittenden, Ann
- Da Vinci, Leonardo, Mother of
- Danticat, Edwidge
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- de Marneffe, Daphne
- Demeter, Goddess
- Dinnerstein, Dorothy
- DiQuinzio, Patrice
- Dove, Rita
- Edelman, Hope
- Edison, Thomas, Mother of
- Einstein, Albert, Mother of
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Elizabeth, “Queen Mum”
- Emecheta, Buchi
- Empress Matilda
- Erdrich, Louise
- Firestone, Shulamith
- Forcey, Linda Rennie
- Fox, Faulkner
- Freud, Sigmund, Mother of
- Friedan, Betty
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gore, Ariel
- Harper, Frances E.W.
- Hays, Sharon
- Hemings, Sally
- Hitler, Adolf, Mother of
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell
- Hong Kingston, Maxine
- hooks, bell
- Hrdy, Sara Blaffer
- Jackson, Marni
- Jacobs, Harriet
- Jarvis, Anna
- Jefferson, Thomas, Mother of
- Johnson, Miriam
- Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kristeva, Julia
- Kumin, Maxine Winokur
- Lamott, Annie
- Laurence, Margaret
- Lazarre, Jane
- Lessing, Doris
- Lewin, Ellen
- Lincoln, Abraham, Mother of
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
- Lorde, Audre
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Maushart, Susan
- Mead, Margaret
- Mink, Gwendolyn
- Moraga, Cherríe
- Morrison, Toni
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- Oakley, Ann
- Obama, Michelle
- O'Brien, Mary
- Olds, Sharon
- Olson, Tillie
- Ostriker, Alicia
- Paley, Grace Goodrich
- Palin, Sarah
- Parks, Rosa
- Pearson, Allison
- Plath, Sylvia
- Pollack, Sandra
- Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Reagan, Nancy
- Rich, Adrienne
- Roberts, Dorothy
- Ross, Loretta
- Rothman, Barbara Katz
- Ruddick, Sara
- Sanger, Margaret
- Sexton, Anne
- Sheehan, Cindy
- Shelly, Mary
- Shriver, Lionel
- Solinger, Rickie
- Spencer, Anna Garlin
- Stalin, Joseph, Mother of
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Stone, Lucy
- Suleiman, Susan Rubin
- Tan, Amy
- Thurer, Shari
- Waldman, Ayelet
- Walker, Alice
- Warner, Judith
- Washington, George, Mother of
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Womanism
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