I interviewed moms with 5 or more kids − here’s what I learned about the women who are quietly going against the grain
- Written by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Associate Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought, Catholic University of America
The U.S. fertility rate is the lowest it's been since the government started tracking it in the 1930s.Mohssen Assanimoghaddam/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesCommentators link America’s declining birth rate to a number of factors: a lack of support for mothers in the workplace, expensive child care, delayed marriage and a rising cost of...
