Lack of affordable child care, discrimination against women in the workforce and the sheer cost of raising children all make it less appealing for some mothers to have more children.
The economic life of a child at home has a direct relationship to how things go at school, per the Kids Count Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
It started in the early ’90s as a way to expose girls to their parents’ professions. Boys are included now, too, and some say, it needs to broaden its approach even further.