Survey delves into high birth rate for young Latinas

CNN.com ^ | May 19, 2009 | By Moni Basu

[madison10]

You are all assuming this is only referring to illegals because...?

[mrsmel]

That’s like the “steps” to which I was referring-like when parents made the young man visit the daughter at the home in view of the family, etc. The automobile, I think, put paid to that. That’s when “dating” away from the family rather than “courtship” in view of the family, with a serious and honorable end in mind, became the norm.

[kabar]

The out wedlock birth rate for Hispanics is 50%, topped only by the black rate of 68%. Many Reps are under the illusion they can attract the Hispanic vote because they are Catholic and have strong family values. The facts prove otherwise. They are on the government teat and will increasingly be more so, especially since they also have the highest school drop out rates.

[Signalman]

“The chu es ay haz been berry berry good to me”

[kabar]

Hispanic Family Values? Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass

Unless the life chances of children raised by single mothers suddenly improve, the explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population over the next couple of decades does not bode well for American social stability. Hispanic immigrants bring near–Third World levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be First World levels of illegitimacy. (In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here.) Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down. Given what psychologists and sociologists now know about the much higher likelihood of social pathology among those who grow up in single-mother households, the Hispanic baby boom is certain to produce more juvenile delinquents, more school failure, more welfare use, and more teen pregnancy in the future.

But it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births—68 percent—exceeds the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.

The only bright news in this demographic disaster story concerns teen births. Overall teen childbearing in the U.S. declined for the 12th year in a row in 2003, having dropped by more than a third since 1991. Yet even here, Hispanics remain a cause for concern. The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest-growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. The Mexican teen birthrate is 93 births per every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 births for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 births for every 1,000 black girls. To put these numbers into international perspective, Japan’s teen birthrate is 3.9, Italy’s is 6.9, and France’s is 10. Even though the outsize U.S. teen birthrate is dropping, it continues to inflict unnecessary costs on the country, to which Hispanics contribute disproportionately.

[madison10]

It says Hispanic, but I see nothing about them being from a country other than the U.S. I READ the article.

[kabar]

That's correct. It includes all Hispanics, legal and illegal. My response was to your anecdotal observation, "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.

The facts say otherwise. The Hispanic family is in terrible shape. The Hispanic Family: The Case for National Action Looking at and for honest numbers.

[9YearLurker]

Exactly! I think more kids would appreciate that than let on, and many would be better off for it.

[wardaddy]

great....the more Democrats the better

[The Good Doctor]

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.

[PapaBear3625]

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

Not in an environment where they would have to work to support themselves plus the kid? No way.

The reason traditional village morality was so rigidly enforced is that parents didn't want to support an illegitimate grandchild, plus it lowered the probability that the daughter would find a good husband to support her.

[mrsmel]

I agree. I’m afraid that the point at which the people discovered they could vote themselves largesse (from the pocket of the remaining producers) is in the rear-view mirror.

[Radio Free American?]

Don't worry, everyone will have a chance to catch up. Obama has already said it's time for the schools to stop teaching abstinence!

[mrsmel]

I have read on black message boards people advocating fertility at any price, whether within a stable family or not, because what minorities have been unable to do in other ways-get the upper hand over “whitey” and wreak “vengeance”-they can ultimately do through sheer force of numbers. I don’t know if it’s true, when it could become true, etc, but this is what I read some on these boards advocating.

[wardaddy]

on any open forum minorities gloat about the day they outnumber whitey

they all have such great track records and all where they come from....Africa, Latin America, parts of Asia

[mrsmel]

That’s what I say to myself when I read that stuff-they may well get the “upper hand” one day, but considering the track record, to what end? Between this kind of short-sightedness and historical amnesia, and the Muslims’ positive attempts to establish a global caliphate, this world will descend into barbarism-it will be as if all the advances through the centuries never happened. In the chaos, people will be looking for a hero, and the stage will be set. If it even takes all that.

[trumandogz]

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

Actually, the vast majority of Latinos in the United States are U.S. Citizens.