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We've gotten use to the steady stream of studies informing us that Latinos in the U.S. are a obese, diabetic, cancer-riddled, pregnant bunch of high school dropouts who drive drunk, so it's refreshing to read the how's and why's behind the worrisome and frustrating statistics. After all, it does no good to throw out facts and numbers if there's no understanding of their underlying causes. Which is all to say, we're glad a new study shows that most Latino students who drop out of high school are doing so for economic reasons and not because we enact some Tancredian fantasy.
The study, titled Consequences of Dropping out of High School: Joblessness & Jailing for High School Dropouts & The High Cost for Taxpayers, suggests that Latinos who drop out of high school mostly do so either so they can join the job force immediately or because they are pregnant and choose to stay home with their new babies. Which makes us wonder whether these two groups are possibly connected, with young mothers staying home and young father working to support their new children. In any case, the stats show that young Latino men are shouldering some of the economic burden in their families:
Study Suggests Latino Students Drop Out Of High School For Economic Reasons
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We've gotten use to the steady stream of studies informing us that Latinos in the U.S. are a obese, diabetic, cancer-riddled, pregnant bunch of high school dropouts who drive drunk, so it's refreshing to read the how's and why's behind the worrisome and frustrating statistics. After all, it does no good to throw out facts and numbers if there's no understanding of their underlying causes. Which is all to say, we're glad a new study shows that most Latino students who drop out of high school are doing so for economic reasons and not because we enact some Tancredian fantasy.
The study, titled Consequences of Dropping out of High School: Joblessness & Jailing for High School Dropouts & The High Cost for Taxpayers, suggests that Latinos who drop out of high school mostly do so either so they can join the job force immediately or because they are pregnant and choose to stay home with their new babies. Which makes us wonder whether these two groups are possibly connected, with young mothers staying home and young father working to support their new children. In any case, the stats show that young Latino men are shouldering some of the economic burden in their families:
Hispanic dropouts had the lowest jobless rates at 47 percent, reflecting the higher employment rate of young Hispanic immigrants.Which is understandable, but unfortunate in that not having finished high school will eventually result in less lucrative job opportunities and career growth. Latina Lista suggests that schools offer programs that help young students balance employment with studies - much like a college program where classes are staggered throughout the day and night. And, to be blunt, this situation also demonstrates, to us, that there needs to be an increased awareness regarding the use of contraceptives and family planning, both in the cases of families where parents are required to have their teen children work because they cannot otherwise afford to feed them, and for young parents who must drop out of school to work and/or to care for their own children. That's not to say we're getting all Margaret Sanger - education is different from termination, and we're advocating preventive measures for the sake of possibly ensuring a better future for Latino teens and their families.
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Termination of pregnancy needs to be considered as an option. It is more abusive to have children you can't support than to terminate a pregnancy. I found this post as a link from the CNN story on spending 20K and more on quinceanaras - and the increasing pressure to make these more lavish. When you understand this money is better spent on education, instead of making 15 year olds look like they are 25 (see the pic in the article), and that showing off how much you make (mom's desire), there will be fewer teen pregnancies. Education and religion are inversely correlated. The role of the Catholic church in keeping people focused on money and ritual and showing off at the expense of focus and motivation can't be ignored. see Making Eye Candy at www.dumbblonde.tv "The American Psychological Association recently issued a report called The Sexualization of American Girls and the findings are disturbing. Strongly disturbing. The result of the social, cultural and parental emphasis on looks is not minor: low self-esteem, eating disorders, and depression. The rate of completed suicides of teen girls has never been higher." What lesson is being taught when mom spends 15 years planning how to spend money? (mother's quote). It breaks my heart to see the values the kids pick up from this. And you are happy they drop out for economic reasons???? I just can't wrap my head around this. Latina girls MUST be taught to succeed and not to value looks over education. I want them to have it all - and you can't do it with babies sucking the energy out of you at 16.
ReplyGuest, thank you so much for the info, everything you say makes absolute sense, now, how do we make it happen? there has to be a way.
ReplyI think they should have broken this data down by "ethnicity". Cuban-American graduation rates, for instance, are probably going to be above the national average, whereas Mexican-American graduation rates are probably near the bottom, sadly. The reason for this, of course, is "exile" versus "immigrant".
ReplyLet me tell you I am currently doing some research at the local county hospital and the number of young Mexican girls having babies is utterly INSANE. I cannot imagine having children that young. Did their mothers ever tell them that they had to stay "senoritas" *wink wink*? Or was I the only one who was threatened with dismemberment if my parents ever found anything insinuating I had sex before marriage?
ReplyIt has to do with social class rather than anything else. Poor non-Hispanic whites and blacks have similar problems, though I admit that it might be more detrimental in regard to Hispanics because of the language barrier.
ReplyYup. S-L C is right. Two white girls in high school ended up dropping out because they got pregnant. turns out they are lower class. Most of these girls that get pregnant at a young age end up being poor and also psychologically abused. They think having a baby will bring 'love' to their lives. ROFL. Too bad they are wrong. Having a baby at such a young age will bring more misery and even more poverty. Sanger is a racist and she wanted to exterminate blacks. But she was right on one thing: Minorities breed like cockroaches. Abortion talks should start in 3rd grade. POPULARIZE being single, using condoms, and make abortion popular as well. The world is over-populated anyways. We do not need more children from poor, violent, mentally unstable individuals with an I.Q lower than 90. All races included.
ReplyDefine minority.
Replyself-loathing, you couldn't have hit it more on the money than you just did. Exile=mostly wealthy educated business owners=come to the states continue being who they are and or were. immigration=poor uneducated= come to the states=nothing changes. like anything in life, small percentages on both parties that go opposite directions.
Replyforgot! rich cubans,= leave everything to castro, come to U.S. Rich Mexicans=stay in Mexico enjoy the wealth become millionaires go to the U.S. only on vacation. Big difference
ReplyThe exile vs immigrant thing wasn't used to distinguish between socio-economic classes, rather it was used to encourage views on the current educational systems in place in those countries. In Cuba, for example, education is compulsory and free; whereas in Mexico it is a struggle for a family to pay and so very few can. Also, Cubans are welcomed to the United States as a political exiles due to our country's current relations with Cuba. And while, yes, some Cuban exiles have come to this country with money, not all have, and even then that was mostly way back before the current government in place in Cuba. I say all this in case anyone got the impression I was saying that all Cuban-Americans are wealthy, as some people have often speculated, which isn't the case; though they have come to this country with a stronger value for education.
ReplyA lot of the so-called "rich" Cubans that fled Cuba in the late 50s and early 60s did so leaving most of their wealth behind. Assets were frozen and property was disbursed among the lower classes.
Replythey cubans come with a stronger sense of education. remember they are told what to do and how to act. they are prisoners of there own doing.(communist) like you said free education. plus an educated mexican does not have to leave Mexico (for the most part) some people even with education are worthless. Mexicans that come here mostly are poor and speak dialect do we need say more. but all in all i still think Mexicans and or Mexico are 2nd to none in respect to better living than most latin American Countries. the only country with a sligthly higher gdp is Brazil. i never been to Cuba but my brotherlaw goes once a year plus my neighbor just returned from there so i have some knowledge.
Replyeven when cubans came here without assets, they arrived here with an education. whereas Mexican arrived here not even speaking castellano.
Replycuba country of 11,500,000. Mexico a country 10 x that
ReplyTrue. In regard to Cuba, either it was the exiles from the late 50s and early 60s with a prep school education or it has been those that have come later with a compulsory education background, the value of education remains strong for Cuban-Americans. Luck of the draw, I guess; Mexico, for instance, hasn't had a civil rights movement or equivalent yet and neither have a lot of Latin American countries.
Replyyeap, that's all they need to become like any other ordinary 3rd world country, they don't need a civil rights movement, they need a civil war. but i guess thats not going to happen, their cowerdness doesn't let them. look @ Mexico since their independence they've had a few. lot of bloodshed. like i said Mexico is free. get an education brown nose a couple here a couple there and waula your set for life, just like the U.S. no difference as a matter of fact the rich are richer in Mexico we all should know that. just look @ the USSR they used to be the best @ everything (almost). they got their freedom and what happened ,they regressed. have a lot of poverty, organized crime, political mayhem, you name it they got ti. hope i made my point.
ReplyYou say abortion is an option but to the Mexican family itOs not, not just because of religious values but because it is not the childOs fault. ItOs funny how your calling quinceanaras a waste of money, when Americans do it as while, Americans spend money on sweet sixteenOs, maybe more maybe the same but what is it to you. Do you even know the meaning of a quinceanara, or are you just complaining because girls want it to be big and fancy? And yes young Latinas should not be having children at such an early age, yet its happing, why because in this hypocritical society sex sells. Sex is announced everywhere, so donOt complain that young Latinas are being sexed up, hello its being advertised everywhere. By the way I am a young latina, I did have my quinceanara, and so what if I have a child, I am a first year college student so if you donOt know your facts keep your mouth closed.
ReplyWell,to me it was very important to get an education,but at the same time I had to pay for that. It's very important to find a balance between job and study,and it's really hard to be good at work and at school at the same time.So I think it's great that now there are school programs that allow to combine your studying with your job.As for leaving school because of pregnancy I do not really understand that,if you have a chance to get an education- get it!I don't understand young ladies who gets pregnant and then do not know what to do with their children,work,take out payday loans for bad credit UK to support them and still have not enough money and living experience to provide kids a good life.
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