Guapura 101: Latinas More Likely To Have Kids

Latinas, according to new Census data, are much more likely to have children than other women. A press release from the Census notes that immigrant women (likely to be Latina) and Latinas in general were more likely to have children than other ethnic groups:

• Foreign-born women were more likely to have ever had a baby than were native-born women by the age of 40 to 44, at 87% compared with 80%.
• By age 40 to 44, white non-Hispanic women (20.6%) were more likely to be childless than Hispanic women (12.4%), black women (17.2%) and Asian women (15.9%). Black women were also more likely to be childless than Hispanic women. Asian women did not differ from black or Hispanic women.
• Differences in childlessness by race and origin are more substantial for women who have never married. Among these women age 40 to 44, white non-Hispanic women were more likely to be childless (69.5%) than black women (27.8%) and Hispanic women (36.4%). No significant difference in childlessness among those who had never married was found between black and Hispanic women, or white non-Hispanic women and Asian women (65.8%).

More detailed tables are available here, but the gist of the story is that Latinas are more likely to have children than white women. Which, in the face of a growing Latino school student population, points to the fact that Latinos are going to continue to be an important part of the future of this country.

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