{"id":903525,"date":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903525\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:08:08","slug":"why-only-one-group-of-americans-is-increasingly-likely-to-have-a-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903525\/","title":{"rendered":"Why only one group of Americans is increasingly likely to have a third child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3PZ32LGI7BHCTKG6PKWAQUQ4RU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PVQZJ3PDE5CFXMAGEUI2IQEKD4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, researchers have repeated a simple fact about income and family size: The higher the family income,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-903525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}