It causes people to recognize that when you start having a family or when you increase the size of your family, you're going to have to make some tradeoffs with other items in your budget.

Isabel Sawhill

Isabel Van Devanter Sawhill is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, where she formerly held the position of vice president and director of Economic Studies, among other duties. She has authored or co-authored many books, including Generation Unbound: Drifting Into Sex and Parenthood Without Marriage, and Creating an Opportunity Society with Ron Haskins. She won a Daniel Patrick Moynihan prize with Ron Haskins.

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