Latino Fertility Just Might Mean Economic Vitality

By O. Ricardo Pimentel, San Antonio Express News

Some highlights of a nuanced talk in San Antonio recently on Hispanic demography by Emilio Parrado of the University of Pennsylvania:

The Hispanic fertility rate is higher than it has been for non-Hispanics but has never been such to have warranted all those fears of the dawning of the Third World on this side of the border. These fears supposed, wrongly, that immigrants are too dissimilar and that generations coming after fail to assimilate.

The Hispanic fertility rate, among both native-born and immigrant women, has been declining.

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