Foreign-born mothers give birth to more babies than U.S.-born mothers, and other surprising facts fo

[IronLionZion]

Foreign-born mothers give birth to more babies than U.S.-born mothers, and other surprising facts for Mother’s Day

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/foreign-born-mothers-give-birth-to-more-babies-than-us-born-mothers-and-3-other-surprising-facts-for-mothers-day-2017-05-12

Most people can agree Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14, is a good time to reflect on what moms do for their children, but also for themselves and their families.

There were 43.5 million mothers between 15 and 50 years old last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and together they had almost 96 million children. Millennials have pushed off parenthood longer than generations before them, but moms in that age group (born between 1980 and 2000) now account for a majority (82%) of annual births. The average age a woman gives birth for the first time was 26 years old in 2013, up from 21 in 1970, according to Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan think tank Pew Research Center.

The rise in U.S births has largely been driven by immigrant women, and has been since 1970 — up to 4 million births in 2014 (or 23% of all babies), from 3.74 million in 1970, were to foreign-born moms, according to the Pew Research Center. Alternatively, the number of births by U.S.-born mothers has been declining, to 3.1 million births in 2014 from 3.46 million in 1970. Immigrant mothers are also more likely to be married than almost a decade ago — a third of all births were to unmarried immigrant mothers, down from 37% in 2008. Births to unmarried U.S.-born mothers were around 42%.

The average amount of time mothers took in the past two years for maternity leave, following a birth or adoption, was 11 weeks (far more than the one week fathers took for paternity leave). Mothers in households that earned $75,000 or more took 12 weeks on average, compared with mothers with household incomes under $30,000, who took six weeks. More than half of mothers said they wished they took more time, according to Pew Research Center, but 36% said they took as much as needed or wanted. Women were also twice as likely as men to say leaving the workforce for paternal leave negatively impacted them. President Donald Trump said in his first official address to Congress that he wanted to ensure parents receive paid family leave, which would come out of unemployment benefits to parents working for companies that didn’t offer it.

Trumpty Dumpty's anti-immigrant rhetoric has all but shoved these millions of newly born Americans right into the welcoming arms of the Democratic Party. That's why they want to stop us from voting.



And one of the biggest reasons they refuse to accept that we can be born in America is the 14th amendment:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It's very easy for someone to delude themselves into believing there's only one type of American if they get some socio-economic benefits from that delusion.

Johnson was a great and prescient leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965

[bettyellen]

1. That's part of the reason folks w "cultural anxiety" hate birth control and abortion- when white

Women choose not to breed, we upset the Fatherland.

[leftstreet]

2. Yep. Abortion protestors ALWAYS protest in 'white' communities

You never see news accounts of protestors in inner city typically non-white areas

[unc70]

3. Article has its numbers deliberately wrong

It is TOTAL US births that is up to 4 million, not births to foreign born mothers. The charts in the story are correct, but the title and narrative are deliberately misleading. The actual number is about 0.9 million.

Remember that number includes most of Trump's children.

Fear mongering!!