Statistical Abstract of the United States
Section 1, Population
[see especially Table 8 & Table 9, pages 11-13]
PDF FILE: pop.pdfOf U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are Minorities
By D'Vera Cohn and Tara Bahrampour
Wednesday, May 10, 2006; Page A01
washingtonpost.com...Forty-five percent of U.S. children younger than 5 are minorities...
This huge demographic shift is primarily due to immigration, legal and illegal.
Sometimes I wonder how many other young couples are waiting too long to have children because they ‘cannot afford it’ :(
A poor man’s riches are his children though. Every time I go to visit my mom in NY, ther are more and more people moving in, more and more kids and I can totally see the white and black birth rates taking the great plunge together in the big cities. OTOH, the young white girls where I are have their kids young and lots at a time, three at a time. I hate to say this but it’s so strange to see large white families then go to New York and see one or two kids. So there’s my race/ethnic commentary for the weekend!