Hispanic families
Bad news from California
Mar 19th 2008
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10880945|
FRESNO
From The Economist print edition
The vaunted Latino family is coming to resemble the black family
EVERY Sunday Elias Loera stands behind a pulpit made from motorcycle
parts and preaches family values to the people of Fresno. He rails
against sinful living and neglectful fathers, yet is careful not to
offend. Mr Loera reckons more than half of the women in his almost
entirely Hispanic congregation are single mothers. He tries to avoid
speaking of “father God”, so dismal are many people's experiences with
fathers in this struggling Californian city.
Whether Cuban, Mexican or Puerto Rican, most Latinos revere la
familia. But the Hispanic family is changing. In the past ten years
the birth rate among unmarried Latinas has risen from 89 to 100 per
1,000. It is now much higher than the rate among black or white women
(see chart). Late last year came a significant but little-noticed
announcement: probably for the first time, half of all Hispanic
children in America were born out of wedlock.
The Latino family is not in such a dire state as the black family,
where 71% of children are born to single mothers. Yet the gap appears
to be closing. In 1995 the unmarried teenage birth rate for Latinas
was 20% lower than the rate for blacks. It is now 12% higher. This is
not just a worry for socially-conservative preachers. More than half
of all young Hispanic children in families headed by a single mother
are living below the federal
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Time to im****t another Chinese solution.
One Child Per Couple.
Note "couple" and not "coupling" as in fully democratic *** with an
unattached female.
