Townhall.com reporter Bandes on Hispanics: "Seems to be a culture of illegitimacy at work"
June 05, 2009 12:37 pm ET by Media Matters staff
Responding to a Pew Hispanic Center report titled, "Latino Children: A Majority Are U.S.-Born Offspring of Immigrants," Townhall.com national political reporter Jillian Bandes writes of Hispanics: "Seems to be a culture of illegitimacy at work." From her June 5 blog post:
Posted by: Jillian Bandes at 10:00 AM
69 percent of first-generation Hispanic children live with their married parents.
73 percent of second-generation Hispanic children live with their married parents.
52 percent of third-generation Hispanic children live with their married parents.
Seems to be a culture of illegitimacy at work....











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And how does not living with married parents mean you're illegitimate? Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't there such a thing as divorced parents?
That's almost supernatural...
I wonder how many of those children live with grandparents or other family members. That doesn't make them illegitimate. Who a child lives with has absolutely no bearing upon their birth status. Maybe the parents divorced and remarried. That doesn't make the children illegitimate, either.
The way the study is shown, it doesn't present any evidence at all about the frequency of legitimate children in families in this country.
But in the past, that has never stopped the idiotic right from making up conclusions from a study that has flawed premises.
Divorce means no married parents too. So unless this study elaborates upon "illegitimate" then the conclusion is false.
Also-- 69 percent is really high, I mean, very good these days. Viva Latinos for keeping the family together for the kids. How good are gringos doing?
in Alaska's first family.
sesli sohbet
Thank you..