{"id":88018,"date":"2026-11-02T08:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88018"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:33:06","slug":"wealthy-having-more-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wealthy-having-more-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthy Having More Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Washington Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3PZ32LGI7BHCTKG6PKWAQUQ4RU\" data-el=\"text\">For decades, researchers have repeated a simple fact about income and family size: The higher the family income, the fewer children you have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PVQZJ3PDE5CFXMAGEUI2IQEKD4\" data-el=\"text\">But in recent years, that trend has started to reverse; wealthier families are beginning to have more children than middle-class families. And a new analysis suggests that, in the United States, having a third child might be more than a sign of being wealthy. In a<span style=\"color: #000000;\">n <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/newsletter.mikekonczal.com\/p\/what-distinguishes-the-1-from-the\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.mikekonczal.com\/p\/what-distinguishes-the-1-from-the\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">analysis<\/a> of the Federal Reserve\u2019s recent <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/econres\/scfindex.htm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/econres\/scfindex.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">Survey of Consumer Finances<\/a>, Mike Konczal, vice president of policy and research at the left-leaning nonprofit Economic Security Project, found that 49 percent of U.S. families in the top 1 percent of incomes had three or more children, compared with 40 to 43 percent for most other income groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: For decades, researchers have repeated a simple fact about income and family size: The higher the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88019,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88018\/revisions\/88019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}