Kimberly Palmer: 'Motherhood Affects Our Financial Goals, Spending Habits And Ability To Earn'

Kimberly Palmer: 'Motherhood Affects Our Financial Goals, Spending Habits And Ability To Earn' When former U.S. News & World Report senior editor of money Kimberly Palmer told me about her new book, Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family (out this week), I was a little dumbfounded. After all, we know that statistically women make most consumer purchase decisions in two-parent families, and that with 57 percent of millennial moms being unmarried (according to Johns Hopkins), single-motherhood is on a steep rise — which means there are more families than ever where mothers are the sole breadwinners and financial decision-makers. With all the pixels and ink devoted to women and money, women and work-life balance, and families and saving and debt, that no one bothered to focus on moms and money?