The fertility rate among Latina women more than doubled within the span of six years in central Ohio. Probably because small Ohio towns aren’t exactly notorious for their stellar dinner theater. What else is a girl to do?:

Central Ohio women contributed to a nationwide baby “boomlet” in 2006, giving birth to 3 percent more children than in 2000.

The majority of central Ohio women are white, but Latinas who live here had dramatically more babies. For every 1,000 women in their race or ethnic group, whites had 68 babies, blacks 93 and Latinas 153, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

The fertility rate for central Ohio Latinas more than doubled over the six years.

Why? It’s probably because we’re dumb and believe in Jesus. Who thinks pulling out is a good method of contraception, the bastard:

Mexican families in the 1980s routinely had seven to 10 children, particularly among Catholics, the poor and the less educated, Vicente said. By 1990, the Mexican government began encouraging parents to have fewer children.

For the past five years, the Hispanic Coalition has encouraged central Ohio immigrants to consider the advantages of smaller families, Vicente said.

“The average in central Ohio in Latino families is three or four kids, compared to one or two in central Ohio overall,” Vicente said.

So, sorry John Gibson. As long as there’s a love of God in our hearts and a hot, overall clad Midwestern farm boy between our sheets, we’ll keep popping out those babies like there’s no tomorrow.
Latinas lead rise in local birthrate [The Columbus Dispatch]