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America’s legendary "Melting Pot" has assimilated millions of immigrants from around the globe into our society, and in process greatly improve their lot, usually by the third generation. But that's not what's happening with Hispanics, who represent the largest wave of immigration into the United States since the 1920s. A Pew Hispanic Center study found that on a number of social indicators, third-generation Hispanics are actually worse off than their first-and second-generation counterparts.
“The children of Latino immigrants experience better outcomes than do Latino children in the third or higher generations” the study found, the reverse of how the Melting Pot process is supposed to work. Hispanic children of U.S.-born parents have lower birth weights, more health problems during childhood, and higher rates of smoking, alcohol and illegal drug consumption. They also engage in more violent or delinquent behavior as adolescents.
This disturbing reversal can largely be explained by one stark fact – spiraling rates of illegitimacy in the Hispanic community. “The chances of being raised by a single parent are much greater among Latino children in the third generation or higher,” the Pew study noted. While 69 percent of first-generation and 73 percent of second-generation Hispanic children live with their married parents, that percentage falls to just 52 percent by the third generation.
The decline of the nuclear family among Latinos is having the same predictable effects it has had in other American communities. A quarter of the six million Hispanic children with American-born parents live in poverty. Sixteen percent have parents who have not finished high school, and 5 percent are not fluent in English despite the fact that both they and their parents were born in an English-speaking country.
Since the number of babies born to Hispanic woman in the U.S. now surpasses the total number of Hispanic immigrants, the decline in the well-being of the third generation should be a matter of great public concern. It is a recipe for expanding poverty and all the misery and social dysfunction that goes with it. Since 1965, when then-Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New Deal liberal, warned that the growing number of single mothers in urban areas was a ticking time bomb, the number of children born out of wedlock in the U.S. has more than doubled, with some of the sharpest increases among Hispanics. It’s no coincidence that their children and grand children are now paying the price. The consequences of the decline of traditional marriage are widespread indeed.
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Thought this was interesting...
what can they do to help themselves... and ease the burden on themselves and the US?
America’s legendary "Melting Pot" has assimilated millions of immigrants from around the globe into our society, and in process greatly improve their lot, usually by the third generation. But that's not what's happening with Hispanics, who represent the largest wave of immigration into the United States since the 1920s. A Pew Hispanic Center study found that on a number of social indicators, third-generation Hispanics are actually worse off than their first-and second-generation counterparts.
“The children of Latino immigrants experience better outcomes than do Latino children in the third or higher generations” the study found, the reverse of how the Melting Pot process is supposed to work. Hispanic children of U.S.-born parents have lower birth weights, more health problems during childhood, and higher rates of smoking, alcohol and illegal drug consumption. They also engage in more violent or delinquent behavior as adolescents.
This disturbing reversal can largely be explained by one stark fact – spiraling rates of illegitimacy in the Hispanic community. “The chances of being raised by a single parent are much greater among Latino children in the third generation or higher,” the Pew study noted. While 69 percent of first-generation and 73 percent of second-generation Hispanic children live with their married parents, that percentage falls to just 52 percent by the third generation.
The decline of the nuclear family among Latinos is having the same predictable effects it has had in other American communities. A quarter of the six million Hispanic children with American-born parents live in poverty. Sixteen percent have parents who have not finished high school, and 5 percent are not fluent in English despite the fact that both they and their parents were born in an English-speaking country.
Since the number of babies born to Hispanic woman in the U.S. now surpasses the total number of Hispanic immigrants, the decline in the well-being of the third generation should be a matter of great public concern. It is a recipe for expanding poverty and all the misery and social dysfunction that goes with it. Since 1965, when then-Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New Deal liberal, warned that the growing number of single mothers in urban areas was a ticking time bomb, the number of children born out of wedlock in the U.S. has more than doubled, with some of the sharpest increases among Hispanics. It’s no coincidence that their children and grand children are now paying the price. The consequences of the decline of traditional marriage are widespread indeed.
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Thought this was interesting...
what can they do to help themselves... and ease the burden on themselves and the US?
Love is the answer