Posted on 01/15/2008 4:27:01 PM PST by xtinct
ATLANTA - Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years.
The nearly 4.3 million births in 2006 were mostly due to a bigger population, especially a growing number of Hispanics. That group accounted for nearly one-quarter of all U.S. births. But non-Hispanic white women and other racial and ethnic groups were having more babies, too.
An Associated Press review of birth numbers dating to 1909 found the total number of U.S. births was the highest since 1961, near the end of the baby boom. An examination of global data also shows that the United States has a higher fertility rate than every country in continental Europe, as well as Australia, Canada and Japan. Fertility levels in those countries have been lower than the U.S. rate for several years, although some are on the rise, most notably in France.
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“But non-Hispanic white women and other racial and ethnic groups were having more babies, too.”
It’s not just anchor babies.
And finally - most of the “anchor babies” are assimilating into American culture. The Europeans’ aren’t.
I am guessing that a lot are the children of illegal immigrants.
Legal or illegal, the huge influx of Hispanic immigrants is fueling this.
My daughters are doing their fair share, both have three. But I think that will about do it. LOL
‘Fertility rates often rise among immigrants who leave their homelands for a better life. For example, the rate among Mexican-born women in the U.S. is 3.2, but the overall rate for Mexico is just 2.4, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based research organization.’
‘Fertility rates were also relatively high for other racial and ethnic groups. The rate rose to 2.1 for blacks and nearly 1.9 for non-Hispanic whites in 2006, according to the CDC.’
You need around a 2.1 birth rate to cover your loses, the illegals are coming here and dropping off Citizens. While Americans are raising pets and not raising children.
Pet parks are replacing children parks in the my area while we continue to allow illegal immigrants rape us.
National suicide at its best.
The question, not asked because it's not PC, "how many of the hispanic babies were born to American citizens?
I don’t think it’s just hispanics, either.
We live in Vermont, a hotbed of hippie liberals, yet there is an absolute tidal wave of babies in our part of town. That’s just anectodal evidence, sure, but I’ve seen glimpses of the same thing elsewhere.
We did our part, too, with our twelfth grandchild last year.
That’s the best part - the conservatives are having kids, the liberals aren’t.
As for me, I would be a horrible parent - so I have a cat instead. :D Better that than to ruin a kid and produce a liberal. :P
Babies are cheap when you don’t have to pay the hospital and don’t have to pay taxes and you get welfare, free housing, EBT cards and WICK programs. The USA is no more. I’m glad I have no kids to pass this travesty on to.
Maybe the post-Roe generation is now at breeding age, and is actually breeding.
I’ve had 2 thus far.
I hope your teaching them spanish. In 20 years, the phone will say: "Push one for Spanish and two for Arabic".
Oh, and teach then how to bribe cops because that is the way the system works in MexHEco.
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So, if a baby is Hispanic, is he or she an anchor baby???
Oh, my, how low the debate has fallen.
My children will be natural-born US citizen, because I’M A US CITIZEN, and I refuse to have my children lumped into the anchor baby category.
That’s why I rarely post here anymore.
No, of course not. If you came legally, you are welcome and have as many babies as you want as long as YOU pay for them. The county of illegal immigrants in not important. Its just that at the moment, Mexico is supplying the majority of illegal immigrants. You are WELCOME and your kids as well!
Sorry to hear it.
As they used to say at my prep school, Nil nisi carborundum illegitimi sunt, or, Don’t let the b*stards grind you down.
Morals are voluntary. Men are free to change them at the drop of a hankie. Determinism is for geology.
and your source for how many are legal?
Thanks, I need some fools to pay for social security.
Speak like that about your own offspring, thankyouverymuch.
>:-(
It’s not about determinism. It’s about culture.
The hispanic population of the US is on the order of 40 million. The bureau of the census estimate as of July 2004 was 41.3 million. Illegal aliens are only a quarter of that number - a third as the highest outside estimate.
Good news for the United States!
Ditto! Many will need those boomlets to make sure they don’t end up in the old folks poor house when Social Security goes broke!
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FYI, I am an American-born Hispanic and although there are some crazies here there is very little bashing from the vast majority of Freepers.
I have no military service but I know that many of the toughest, bravest, and most loyal Marines are Hispanic. That point is not lost on most Freepers.
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She was a whiner, get over, slacker.
Does she count as a Hispanic?
Even though I liked her, she sucked as a Soldier.
Your real point however is well taken. No argument from here.
“most of the “anchor babies” are assimilating into American culture...”
You couldn’t be more wrong. Come see me in San Antonio and I’ll show you first hand how they bring the barrio with them.
Furthermore, Hispanics do not abort their children and never have. They would lose too much in welfare to do that. Never mind they have not learned: “don’t breed ‘em if you can’t feed ‘em.”
Congratulations!
Thank you. :-)
Decent people should have lots of kids, and lots of grandkids. You have done your part — great job!
It's the American way!
The FReepers who complains about Hispanics are a bunch of Know-Nothing thugs from the 19th Century.
This one becomes my neice on 03/01/08, the day I get married.
My son is getting married on February 29, 2008. I'm hoping for a grandchild 9 months later... lol
He and my new daughter plan to have a few munchkins.
I can't wait. The best part of my life has been the 32 years that I've been a MOM... :o)
No, it WASN'T - until 1965.
Prior to 1965, the official immigraion policy of the United States was to admit people of European ancestry, almost exclusively (I said, "almost"). It was VERY difficut for, say, Chinese or Indians to get here.
Prior to 1965, official US immigration policies were (well, what the heck, might as well say it) exclusionary and discriminatory. As they SHOULD be, in my opinion. The underlying reason was to limit immigration to those who would resemble, and who would preserve, the traditional color and culture of the nation of the founders.
It was after the immigration reform act of 1965 that the multicultural floodgates opened. We are seeing the results of that, only now.
My current reading material is "Day of Reckoning", by Patrick J. Buchanan. Here's a relevant excerpt:
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"Democracy and fee markets do not a country make. Constitutions, no matter how eloquent, abstract ideas no matter how lovely, do not create a nation. A nation writes its constitution. A nations drafts its own birth certificate. What makes a people and a nation is a common and unique homeland and people, history and heritage, language and literature, song and story, traditions and customs."
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We are seeing that common culture, heritage, and ethnicity ripped to shreds right before our eyes, encouraged by the powers-that-be.
I realize your opinion may be different. That's mine.
- John
Baby bump. I did my part for 2006 babies!
“Kohler and others say the difference has more to do with culture than race. For example, white American women have more children than white European — even though many nations in Europe have more family-friendly government policies on parental leave and child care.”
If you intend to depend on social security, I see forced euthenasia in your far future.
Congratulations. Nieces are great. If their mothers aren’t ready to kill you for something you bought them, you ain’t doin’ it right. ;-)
The barely-concealed racist rage against Hispanics on many threads is indeed hard to take.
And let’s not forget which Senator led the charge for the 1965 immigration reform. None other than the corpulent, drunken, boozy, mistress-dunking Senator from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy.
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