Money is now the top reason Americans aren't having more kids, as families rethink their household dreams
For the first time in 11 years of tracking American family attitudes, money has taken the top spot as the reason people are limiting how many children they have. Parents cite it twice as often as any other factor
According to the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University's American Family Survey, more than seven in 10 Americans now believe raising children is too expensive, a 13% jump from last year. The shift shows a major change in how Americans view family planning, with 43% of respondents saying "insufficient money" as their main reason for having fewer or no children (1).
"To get 70% of Americans to agree on something, just that alone is telling us something," Susan Brown, director of Bowling Green State University's Center for Family and Demographic Research, told The Washington Post, regarding the survey (2).
It shows American families are taking quality of life and rising costs more seriously and feel they can no longer afford the old mentality that having kids is simply "part of what you do." But what do these costs actually look like?
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