If you have children, you might not believe this (unless you have teenagers) – but parenthood could be putting your eventual retirement at risk.

But there are ways to avoid that risk.

So says a brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, which used the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) to gauge the impact of having children on the retirement security of current older working households.

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