http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/23/154628.shtml
The birthrate among Hispanic women in the U.S. is twice as high as the rest of the American population – and an increasing number of Hispanic children are born to unmarried mothers.
Hispanic women now have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country – more than three times that of whites and Asians, and almost 1 1/2 times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For every 1,000 unwed Hispanic women, 92 children were born in 2003, the latest year for which data are available. The rate for unmarried white women is 28 children per 1,000, for Asians it’s 22, and for black women, 66.
According to Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, 45 percent of all Hispanic births occur outside marriage, compared to 24 percent for whites.
And 51 percent of Hispanic women get pregnant at least once before age 20, compared with the national average of 35 percent for all teen girls, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy reports.
Having a child out of wedlock, even for a teenager, is no longer a taboo in the Hispanic community, according to Mac Donald, who writes in the Dallas Morning News: "The most powerful Hispanic family value – the tight-knit extended family – facilitates unwed child rearing. Relatives often step in to make up for the absence of the baby’s father.”
But despite strong family support, unwed Hispanic mothers are coming to rely more and more on the welfare system. Hispanics now dominate the federal Women, Infants and Children free food program, with Hispanic enrollment soaring more than 25 percent from 1996 to 2002. Black enrollment fell 12 percent and white enrollment dipped 6.5 percent during the same period.
What is hard working, family-oriented, industrious, or Christian aout this?
"What is hard working, family-oriented, industrious, or Christian aout this?"
Look, I'm not defending anything, just speaking the truth. (I'm in Texas, and the Hispanic culture is prevalent here. I know what I'm talking about.) It's not politically correct, but here goes:
Hard working and industrious: They work their butts off, often as day laborers and at menial jobs, and their work ethic is one any employer would want. The kids drop out of school as soon as the law allows and work jobs to help support the family. That's a BIG problem for public schools, which are then held accountable for a dropout rate that they have little control over. But these guys do work hard.
Family oriented: big, extended families, often multi-generational, living together and looking out for each other. The out-of-wedlock birth rate is affecting all demographic groups, and it's sad. But the Hispanic girls keep the babies instead of killing them before they're born.
Christian: they may be breeding out of wedlock, but they're at mass on Sundays. They are overwhelmingly Catholic which, whatever your religious views, is solidly in the "Christian" column demographically.
I'm not defending anything, just telling it like it is, from first-hand experience.
And I forgot to mention that they're also dying in Iraq in significant numbers. Check it out.