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Minorities have more kids because they are poorer. There is an indirect correlation between income and birth rates. The poorer a population, the more children they have.
OY, you have reversed the cause and the effect.
As the number of children in a household increases, the amount of income required to support the household also increases. Thus, for a given income level, a household with more children will enjoy a lower standard of living than a household with the same income level but fewer children.
In my area, I never see Hispanic mothers with lots of kids.
I don't know where y'all are from, but down here in South Texas, there are LOTS of Hispanic families with 4, 5, 6 or more children.
Within the Hispanic community here, there is a strong expectation that each person will have multiple children, usually when they are very young adults (and thus, are not yet financially established). The troubling aspect is that I've never heard an older member of the Hispanic community mention that having children should be predicated upon the ability to support the child(ren).
I don't know where y'all are from, but down here in South Texas, there are LOTS of Hispanic families with 4, 5, 6 or more children.
Within the Hispanic community here, there is a strong expectation that each person will have multiple children, usually when they are very young adults (and thus, are not yet financially established). The troubling aspect is that I've never heard an older member of the Hispanic community mention that having children should be predicated upon the ability to support the child(ren).
I was thinking the same thing. We live in Houston and if I just walk into the grocery store most Hispanic mothers I see have 4, 5 or even more children vs a white mother who is with two.
The Hispanics waiting at the bus stop have 5 children in tow and in the neighborhood we rent in they are 10+ people living in small homes.
I always feel for the kids of the above families who have 6 siblings and they are in shoes with holes with them, dirty clothes and the mom is using a SNAP card to buy chips and ramen.
Why punish the kid by not meeting their basic needs just to pull more government assistance??
It has nothing whatsoever to do with race. It has to do with culture, upbringing and religion. Many Latinas who start having babies young and don't stop are Catholic. In the Midwest, you'll likely find the same story with white Catholic girls. Or in Ireland. Or Africa. Or Europe. The second factor here in America may be lack of funds and the government incentivizing births of new citizens (through SNAP, WIC, tax breaks, etc.)
It has nothing whatsoever to do with race. It has to do with culture, upbringing and religion. Many Latinas who start having babies young and don't stop are Catholic. In the Midwest, you'll likely find the same story with white Catholic girls. Or in Ireland. Or Africa. Or Europe. The second factor here in America may be lack of funds and the government incentivizing births of new citizens (through SNAP, WIC, tax breaks, etc.)
This is true to some extent.
Most of the Americanized Catholics stopped this in the 1960s and the onset of birth control. I think a lot of recent immigrants are coming out of a more strict, and outdated form of the church brought over from their old country.
I am Gen X, and my parents' generation coming out of the 60's showed a sharp decline in children. Their Catholic parents however, coming out of WW2 and the baby boom generation had boatloads of children. My Catholic grandparents had 6 living children in the 1940's, my step mother's Catholic family down the street had 11 children in the 1940's. A lot of did have to do with lack of birth control available at that time to everyone, but it did seem that the Catholic families in town had families sometimes 2x the size of other families. Out of all of their children who married around the 60's and 70's almost every one of them had no more than 2 or 3 kids at most, despite being raised in very large Catholic families... The Pill was now commonplace and views regarding the church changed.
In recent immigrant populations, lack of health care and birth control options, cultural family traditions, and coming out of a more traditional and less progressive religious background = more kids.
It is kinda comical that many of you figure that most minorities sit in their living rooms plotting ways to maximize government subsidies. They probably have prepared an Excel spreadsheet to determine the "sweet spot" for the optimal number of kids to have. Or maybe there's an app for that . . .
I don't know about you, but you can't pay me enough de minimis governmental assistance to wake up at 3 a.m. for diaper changes for the next 15 years.
i knew this one black guy that at 25 he had 27 children by 17 different ladies. his reply, it wasn't his problem.. I thought it was a joke till the welfare people started showing up every payday and taking 100% of his paycheck. judge say his living wasn't his problem.
It is kinda comical that many of you figure that most minorities sit in their living rooms plotting ways to maximize government subsidies. They probably have prepared an Excel spreadsheet to determine the "sweet spot" for the optimal number of kids to have. Or maybe there's an app for that . . .
I don't know about you, but you can't pay me enough de minimis governmental assistance to wake up at 3 a.m. for diaper changes for the next 15 years.
Mick
You couldn't pay me enough to do that either. I work and I'm slated to make around 40K this year. That is far more than any government subsidy could provide.
2) The lower the education level the more people have babies. This is obvious because they don't plan their kids future and education and they don't use protection. Since they are uneducated, they seem to relate having babies god given. Since most uneducated people racist and/or religious they think abortion is a crime and that religion prohibits abortion so they make more babies than they can afford.
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The more affluent you are the more things you can buy and travel so you need more time
These rich and educated people know many more things to enjoy in life than raise a kid. but a poor uneducated person only acts primitively and with instincts one of which is motherhood. Also, most minorities see US citizenship as a perk or a gift so uneducated people have more kids than educated in the US.
What scares me is that the fastest growing minority is muslims in the US. Their ideology unfortunately does not run parallel with the foundations of USA. And there is the potential of home grown terrorism with that but it is a different subject.
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