Get your Mother’s Day fun facts here, with plenty of time to spare

Following the example of retailers who put up Christmas displays right after Labor Day, the Census Bureau this week posted its “Facts for Features” about Mother’s Day—even though that day doesn’t arrive until May 14. Perhaps they’d confused Mother’s Day with Administrative Professionals Day, which comes next month. Anyhow, among the fun facts about mothers in the U.S.: 81 percent of women age 40-44 are mothers, down from 90 percent in 1976. The average age at which American women give birth for the first time is now 25.2,