Birth rates among Latina women in US down by 23% (generation, Mexican, illegal)

[Finn_Jarber]

American women had far fewer babies after the onset of the Great Recession, which made 2011 the year with the nation’s lowest recorded birth rate. But it is immigrant women, specifically Mexican immigrant women, who had the steepest drop in births, a 23 percent lower birth rate between 2007 and 2010. By comparison, the drop during those years for U.S.-born women was 6 percent, and among all foreign-born women it was 14 percent.

Report: U.S. birth rates hit record lows, largest drop among immigrant Latinas

[WesternPilgrim]

Americanization = barrenization.

[JazzyTallGuy]

Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim

Americanization = barrenization.

No different than any major industrialized country on the planet.

Also there are over 310 million people in the United States. The country is hardly "barren".

[crbcrbrgv]

This is no surprise at all.

Every wave of immigrants that is Catholic dominant slows down the next generation.

The best method of birth control is having 10 or more brothers and sisters.

[tropical87]

So are we despairing or celebrating at this relevation?

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by tropical87

So are we despairing or celebrating at this relevation?

Despairing. We're corrupting them, not helping them.

[pch1013]

Originally Posted by WesternPilgrim

Despairing. We're corrupting them, not helping them.

I expect that the reaction on the "Illegal Immigration" forum (a.k.a. the OMG ANCHOR BABIES AZTLAN LA RAZA ILLEGALS OMG OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE BECAUSE BROWN BABIES forum) would be rather different.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by tropical87

So are we despairing or celebrating at this relevation?

I took is as a sign that the immigrants are assimilating and beginning to behave more like Americans while abandoning their old customs

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

This is no surprise at all.

Every wave of immigrants that is Catholic dominant slows down the next generation.

Which is a crying shame, but I suppose the "American dream" is hard to resist.

[WesternPilgrim]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

I took is as a sign that the immigrants are assimilating and beginning to behave more like Americans while abandoning their old customs

It certainly is that.

By and large I'm happy that they are assimilating, but if they're assimilating to our materialism, consumerism, secularism, hedonism and anti-natalism, that's unfortunate.