When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind?
Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket fences?
All valid images, but you’re forgetting something that is - or was - a fixture of suburbia: young children, romping on quiet streets and in playgrounds.
According to 2010 Census data, the population of children has dropped in 95 percent of America’s counties, compared with a decade earlier. While the nation’s population grew almost 10 percent in that time, the number of households with children under 18 remained constant, at about 38 million.
