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Survey delves into high birth rate for young Latinas
CNN.com ^ | May 19, 2009 | By Moni Basu

Posted on 05/19/2009 3:44:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, more than half -- 53 percent -- of Latinas get pregnant by their 20th birthday, nearly twice the national average.

"There's a big disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families want and value," said Ruthie Flores, senior manager of the National Campaign's Latino Initiative.

Of the 759 Latino teens surveyed, 49 percent said their parents most influenced their decisions about sex, compared with 14 percent who cited friends. Three percent cited religious leaders, 2 percent teachers and 2 percent the media.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; birthrates; families; hispanics; illegalimmigration; illegitimacy; immigrantlist; immigration; jackpotbabies; latino; marriage; prolife
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1 posted on 05/19/2009 3:44:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They need to move to California where they can get the best healthcare and other assistance.


2 posted on 05/19/2009 3:51:43 PM PDT by umgud (Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"There's a big disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families want and value,"

Considering a lot of Latina families want and value free goodies from the gringos, I don't see a disconnect.

3 posted on 05/19/2009 3:52:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why, from my one man survey: They develop early, like looking sexy, just look at those eyes and they watch Spanish language TV!


4 posted on 05/19/2009 3:54:22 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: DuncanWaring

re: “There’s a big disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families want and value”

Your comments are right on. The reality is that there is no disconnect between pregnancy rates and what Latina families actually want and value. There is only a disconnect between pregnancy rates and what the Latina families are willing to tell a researcher what they want and value.


5 posted on 05/19/2009 3:54:52 PM PDT by Jubal Harshaw
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hispanics and the Church have done a great job of teaching their children to be Pro-Life.


6 posted on 05/19/2009 3:56:08 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yup. You know the saying: when a mexican becomes an american citizen, the entire barrio becomes one too.


7 posted on 05/19/2009 3:56:34 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They shun contraception, but not fornication. Its like wearing a raincoat on a sunny day, man!


8 posted on 05/19/2009 3:56:48 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think the real story is that teens do actually need supervision. Their hormones are through the roof, and though many girls particularly would be better off both emotionally and in dealing with a teen-birth aftermath if they abstained longer, expecting that, given the opportunity and the heat of the moment, is, as Bristol once said, ‘unrealistic’.

Would that parents were indeed the parents of old—and the old country—and they didn’t permit such opportunities. Call me old fashioned, but I really believe that is the answer.


9 posted on 05/19/2009 4:01:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: King Moonracer
And hence, conservative America is dead. The “gimme” population has reached critical mass, and a Republican (never mind conservative) will never again occupy the White House.
10 posted on 05/19/2009 4:02:05 PM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A friend of mine moved to eastern Oregon to get his family away from all the negatives of living in a large city.
He works in the medical field and the region has a huge Hispanic population , apparently a lot of it to work in agriculture.
He said in the last couple of years he has seen a shocking explosion
of pregnant 13 and 14 yr old Hispanic girls.
He was told that it’s an accepted cultural practice-the young girls get pregnant and the grandmothers raise the babies.


11 posted on 05/19/2009 4:07:08 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: trumandogz
Hispanics and the Church have done a great job of teaching their children to be Pro-Life.

What has the church taught them about being freeloaders?
12 posted on 05/19/2009 4:09:11 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s simple economics.

Live in Mexico = Socialist misery, crime, drugs and corruption.

Move to the US - Free housing, free education, free healthcare, free food!

Things are nice up north, and we pay NADA!


13 posted on 05/19/2009 4:10:33 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: trumandogz

“Hispanics and the Church have done a great job of teaching their children to be Pro-Life.”

They’ve done a great job at teaching them to reproduce like rabbits and live off welfare.

I’m sure you know that ‘latino’s’ have more abortions than US Citizens...hardly ‘pro-life’.

[snip]First, the good news. The abortion rate fell to its lowest level since 1974-—20/1,000 women of childbearing age (15-44). In 1980 there were 29 abortions per thousand women,....Consequently, by 2004, “there were 10.5 abortions per 1,000 white women ages 15 to 44, compared with 28 per 1,000 Hispanic women of that age

http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept08/nv092308.html


14 posted on 05/19/2009 4:10:47 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Welfare... duh!


15 posted on 05/19/2009 4:13:02 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: 9YearLurker

I agree. People now act like it “has” to happen, but why didn’t it happen as often in the past when it was socially proscribed to be an unwed mother, and the word bastard wasn’t what you called your ex-husband? It’s not that people didn’t think young people didn’t get the same urges they get now, they absolutely DID think that they did, and took steps to keep their urges from overcoming their emotional maturity and capability of raising a family.


16 posted on 05/19/2009 4:13:10 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: wac3rd

I wonder if these same ‘latinas’ would be getting pregnant and having babies if they were back home in Mexico. My guess is no.


17 posted on 05/19/2009 4:18:14 PM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue; gubamyster; All

Here’s one of the reasons:

http://mexico.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/11/29/calderon-cites-culture-of-machismo/

Speaking at a Mexico City event to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, President Calderon addressed what he called Mexico’s “culture of machismo,” acknowledging that millions of women face abuse and workplace discrimination despite the passage of laws targeting gender inequities and violence against women.

Earlier this year, Mexico enacted a law obligating authorities to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women, but only a handful of states have formally adopted the measure thus far. This week, Calderon signed an additional law aimed at preventing and punishing the trafficking and enslavement of women and children.

Violence against women in Mexico has gained international attention with the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of several hundred young women in Juarez and Chihuahua over the past ten years.”


18 posted on 05/19/2009 4:18:30 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: mrsmel

Yes, but I think more than the issue of stigma even is simply chaperoning away the opportunity. Some urges are just too strong to expect a couple of mid-teenagers to be able to counteract themselves. Give them too much opportunity and they will give in—even if they don’t mean to.

Parents are either so eager to be ‘cool’ and liked by their kids or too lazy to be bothered, I think—which is a real disservice to their children.


19 posted on 05/19/2009 4:20:23 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: King Moonracer
They shun contraception, but not fornication. Its like wearing a raincoat on a sunny day, man!

...but they Latinas, at least the ones I know, stay with the father of their children, unlike other races where the father just disappears and hopes the neighborhood will raise the kids.

20 posted on 05/19/2009 4:21:57 PM PDT by madison10
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