RasmussenReports.com, May 10th, 2007
Sixty-six percent (66%) of American adults say that being a mother is the most important role for a woman to fill in today’s world. A Rasmussen Reports nationaL telephone survey found that 20% disagree. These figures are relatively unchanged from last year.
Women are a bit more likely than men to view motherhood as the most important role—70% of women hold that view along with 62% of men.
Among those Americans whose mother is still alive, 67% say they’ll visit their mother to honor the holiday. Twenty-eight (28%) will just call. Men are slightly more likely to visit their moms than women.
Meanwhile, just 27% of adults claim that they will send their mothers flowers for Mother’s day. Sixty-two percent (62%) won’t send beautiful bouquets. Younger adults are more likely to send flowers than their elders.
Finally, about a quarter (27%) of Americans believe that Mother’s Day is “one of our nation’s most important holidays.” Nine percent (9%) say it’s the least important, while 59% think the holiday is somewhere in between the most important and the least important. Christmas and the Fourth of July are considered the nation’s most important holidays.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports May 6-7, 2007. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
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