Money & Career CheatSheet – Sam Becker
“Researchers from both the University of Houston and the London School of Economics recently published a study called The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills, which took a look at the relationship between the number of children a family has, and the resulting quality of life those children experience, in addition to comparing the cognitive abilities of children from smaller families. Basically, what they found is that the more children a family has, the lower the quality of life for those children. Or, the more siblings you have, the more difficult your life is going to be. “Increases in family size decrease parental investment, decrease childhood cognitive abilities, and increase behavioral problems,” the study found.”(more)