Moms at home run companies, kids
2.1 million U.S. women own home businesses; some bring in big bucks

 
By Paula Burkes Erickson
Published: May 12, 2007

Oklahoma City attorney Terri Thomas never planned to be a mother. She and her husband were married six and half years when Thomas learned she was pregnant with their daughter, now 4 months old.

"We never ruled out kids,” Thomas, 37, said. "But we never got to the point of saying ‘OK, we're ready to try.'”

Thomas, however, was sure of one thing: if she had children, she'd stay home with them. As a self-em...


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