Higher Fertility Rates of Hispanic Immigrants

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    Since many of these immigrants coming from Latin America are likely to plop out several babies after they get here, maybe we don't need as many as we had thought.
    I wonder if this is a factor that was taken into consideration by policymakers.


    Of Hispanic women living in the United States who have heard about birth control, much of the information is incorrect (such as once you use birth control you will never be able to conceive another child). Here are a couple of the interesting stories about this topic.

    “My sister says after sexual relations, . . . you have to get up right away to drink a glass of water, clean yourself, and suck a lime. This suggests there are people who control [their fertility] like that. I met a woman who had been using this method for 10 years, and she never got pregnant.

    “In the university where I was studying, some of the students from medical school were taking herbs. I know those are good because my mother was using them, but I wonder if they were really that good because we had a big family of 13 children. . . . [The tea] was used as a birth control method. If you drank the tea regularly, and if you lost track of how many times you’'ve had the tea and you became pregnant, the tea made you abort. . . . They mixed different kinds of herbs and drank them as a way to prevent pregnancy. When I was pregnant and I was ready to have my baby, I drank the tea to make the delivery of my baby quicker.

    For a majority of the group, it had never occurred to them to seek birth control at all following their marriage, citing either a desire to have children immediately, or a need to please their new husbands by producing heirs. Other factors that limited their access to healthcare and birth control option appear to be poverty and cultural modesty; the religious doctrine of Catholicism regarding abundant and unlimited procreation. The greatest influence on the choice to use birth control seems to be the husband. Of the women interviewed, a majority of the spouses were opposed limiting the numbers of children, referring to the culturally based value of “machismo, men’s exaggerated sense of power or strength.
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    source: Sable 2009, Wilson 2009, Riviera 2007

    Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population grew by 15,171,776, accounting for 56 percent of the overall growth in the USA. There were 50,477,594 Hispanics as of April 1, 2010. The 10-year growth rate for Hispanics was 43 percent, compared to less than 5 percent for non-Hispanics.

    As of 2011, there are 17,130,891 Hispanic children, accounting for 23.1 percent of the people in the USA under 18 years of age. Between 2000 to 2010, the number of Hispanic children grew by 4.8 million. (by comparison, the number of non-Hispanic White children shrank by 4.3 million) The demographics of children today are generally a very accurate reflection of what the future population will be.

    The fertility rate for women of Hispanic origin was 97.5 live births per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years, which is 50 percent higher than the rate for non-Hispanic women. For women of Mexican origin the rate was 112.3 per 1,000.
    source: National Center for Health Statistics, most recent statistics collected in 1981
    (For comparison, the average American female fertility rate in 1976 was only 29.6 )
    This does not even take into account that Hispanics have children at earlier ages. Just like compounding interest, even a slightly higher rate will cause huge differential effects after being compounded over time.

    In 2011, 37.6 percent of the population of California was Hispanic. As of 2010, according to the state Department of Education, 51 percent of students (3.1 million) are Hispanic. In only a single generation, the Hispanics will have gone to making up 37.6 percent to 51 percent.
    It certainly was not an easy matter to so drastically alter a state like California's population, considering that, as of 2010, the population of California was 36.9 million, more than the entire country of Canada (34.1 million, as of 2010 ).

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    Just to give some rough idea of how much immigration has taken place over the last 35 years:

    As of 2017, less than 35% of the children under the age of 10 are White in Texas and California.
    Less than 35% of those under age 10 are White in 5 states

    California and Texas together account for 21% of the total country's entire population.
     

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