LOS ANGELES -- Today is Mother's Day. And a new report shows motherhood is completely different than just a few years ago.
First...events are planned throughout Southern California to honor mothers everywhere.
The Pay It Forward Band will spend the holiday performing at three L-A nursing homes, while 1-thousand people are expected to participate in the L-A Jewish Home's "World's Largest Mother's Day Celebration."
In Orange County, Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Huntington Beach will offer a Mother's Day Brunch, and in Irvine, Pretend City Children's Museum will host "Me and My Mommy Day."
For the sixth consecutive year, Major League Baseball will use Mother's Day to generate awareness about breast cancer and raise funds to fight the disease.
Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Russell Martin and Casey Blake will be among the Los Angeles Dodgers using pink bats stamped with Major League Baseball's breast cancer logo for today's game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium.
The bats will later be auctioned off on Major League Baseball's Web site, MLB.com, with proceeds benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.
On a day that honors mothers everywhere, a new report shows how different moms are now.
A Pew Research Center report has found some major changes from 1990 to 2008.
The study notes that 30 used to be considered old for having a child, but now one in 7 babies are born to women who are 35 and older.
There are also a lot more unmarried moms now -- accounting for a record 4 in 10 births in 2008. The report says that's partly because more women are marrying later or choosing not to marry at all.
New moms are more educated than they were in the past.
Most have had at least some college, while only 40 percent had in 1990.
First...events are planned throughout Southern California to honor mothers everywhere.
The Pay It Forward Band will spend the holiday performing at three L-A nursing homes, while 1-thousand people are expected to participate in the L-A Jewish Home's "World's Largest Mother's Day Celebration."
In Orange County, Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Huntington Beach will offer a Mother's Day Brunch, and in Irvine, Pretend City Children's Museum will host "Me and My Mommy Day."
For the sixth consecutive year, Major League Baseball will use Mother's Day to generate awareness about breast cancer and raise funds to fight the disease.
Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Russell Martin and Casey Blake will be among the Los Angeles Dodgers using pink bats stamped with Major League Baseball's breast cancer logo for today's game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium.
The bats will later be auctioned off on Major League Baseball's Web site, MLB.com, with proceeds benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.
On a day that honors mothers everywhere, a new report shows how different moms are now.
A Pew Research Center report has found some major changes from 1990 to 2008.
The study notes that 30 used to be considered old for having a child, but now one in 7 babies are born to women who are 35 and older.
There are also a lot more unmarried moms now -- accounting for a record 4 in 10 births in 2008. The report says that's partly because more women are marrying later or choosing not to marry at all.
New moms are more educated than they were in the past.
Most have had at least some college, while only 40 percent had in 1990.
