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BlueCaliDem

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5. Hispanic/Latino women are having fewer children, according to a Pew study.
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 12:00 PM
Apr 2015
ORLANDO, Fla. — Hispanic women in the United States, who have generally had the highest fertility rates in the country, are choosing to have fewer children. Both immigrant and native-born Latinas had steeper birthrate declines from 2007 to 2010 than other groups, including non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Asians, a drop some demographers and sociologists attribute to changes in the views of many Hispanic women about motherhood.

As a result, in 2011, the American birthrate hit a record low, with 63 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, led by the decline in births to immigrant women. The national birthrate is now about half what it was during the baby boom years, when it peaked in 1957 at 122.7 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age.

The decline in birthrates was steepest among Mexican-American women and women who immigrated from Mexico, at 25.7 percent. This has reversed a trend in which immigrant mothers accounted for a rising share of births in the United States, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center. In 2010, birthrates among all Hispanics reached their lowest level in 20 years, the center found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/health/us-birthrate-dips-especially-for-hispanics.html?_r=0

As I've said, I'll believe it when I see it. I think the White race will remain the majority in the United States. Most minorities are choosing higher education and career over motherhood.

Full disclosure: I'm Asian-American, the minority among minorities.

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I'm wondering if those who travel the world already know that white people are not a majority? midnight Apr 2015 #1
I'm pretty sure whites have never been the majority in world population. Half-Century Man Apr 2015 #2
I'll believe it when I see it. I think the White race will remain the largest BlueCaliDem Apr 2015 #3
Not if the current birth rates persists brush Apr 2015 #4
Hispanic/Latino women are having fewer children, according to a Pew study. BlueCaliDem Apr 2015 #5
They're still having way more kids than whites brush Apr 2015 #7
We'll see in about thirty years if that trend holds. But you're right about one thing... BlueCaliDem Apr 2015 #9
Well, there is certainly yuiyoshida Apr 2015 #6
Beats me! BlueCaliDem Apr 2015 #10
The ironic part is that people think it will be better. ROFL. n/t jtuck004 Apr 2015 #8
It'll be better because there won't be enough teapublicans . . . brush Apr 2015 #11
Yeah, the old world is just gonna stand still and wait for you. jtuck004 Apr 2015 #12
What are you talking about? brush Apr 2015 #14
It was getting better in 1950, it was getting better in 1960, it was getting jtuck004 Apr 2015 #15
Dear people with no vision. Unless you are part of the 1%, you are ALREADY a minority. n/t jtuck004 Apr 2015 #13
Study some history brush Apr 2015 #17
Like India, Belarus, others? I think you mean dreamy, idealistic democracies jtuck004 Apr 2015 #18
Study some history was my complete thought brush Apr 2015 #19
Great youceyec Apr 2015 #16
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