Sunday, June 23, 2013

More intact families?

Daniel Greenfield questions Jeb Bush's recent statement that immigrants "have more intact families." Greenfield links to a post by Rachel Sheffield at The Foundry on Latino American families:

Among Latinos, unmarried parent families are roughly three times as likely to be poor as married families. Tragically, over half of Latino children born today are born outside of marriage. The rate has increased from less than 40 percent in the 1990s to more than half—nearly 53 percent—today.

Greenfield asserts that it is the broken family that

links upscale liberals and their minority clients to their dependency on the state.

Moreover,
You can’t fill a hole with a hole. Importing large numbers of people who are going to be more welfare dependent than the native population not only fixes nothing, it will force deeper cuts to medical services for the native elderly to fund the welfare state for the newcomers.

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