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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:

Children of Hispanics Are More Frequently Illegitimate The Longer Their Parents Have Been In The U.S.

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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    • Author by nerzog (June 05, 2009 12:48 pm ET)
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      Isn't this the same argument the Troglodytes used 20 years ago to beat up on Black people and argue against Welfare?
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      • Author by twseattle (June 05, 2009 1:05 pm ET)
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        GHWB himself used the 'welfare queen' phrase many times.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (June 07, 2009 2:52 am ET)
           
        What percentage of Anglo kids live with their married parents?

        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?
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (June 05, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
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      Seems to me to be a pretty good reason for comprehensive immigration reform. NOt constantly threatening to throw everyone out of the country would seem to be something that might stabalize the family unit a bit...
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 05, 2009 2:53 pm ET)
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      Children of Hispanics Are More Frequently Illegitimate The Longer Their Parents Have Been In The U.S.
      So Hispanic children magically become illegitimate once their parents have been here long enough?

      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.
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      • Author by carlileb5935 (June 07, 2009 2:55 am ET)
           
        Right.

        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?
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    • Author by rtwmd1230 (June 05, 2009 3:27 pm ET)
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      "Seems to be a culture of illegitimacy at work...."

      in Alaska's first family.
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    • Author by sesli (June 06, 2009 9:35 pm ET)
         
      sesli chatsesli sohbet
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      Thank you..
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