For most families, children leaving home to pursue an education or a dream job waits until at least after high school.
But last summer, Axel Picazo left home for the first time at the age of 15 to join a youth soccer club more than 1,500 miles away from his home in Austin and even further from where he spent the first decade of his life in Mexico City.
“We always thought about having our children until they marry,” Axel’s mom Amor Picazo said in a phone interview shortly after he returned to Pennsylvania for his second year with the Philadelphia Union Academy.