Fertility Latino Community
Fertility and the Latino Community
In fertility discourse, the Latino community presents an interesting dynamic to analyze. Often Latino fertility is viewed as an “out of control” fertility in narratives that depict Latinos as a threat to national security in America in terms of immigration. An example depicting this comes from Leo Chavez’s The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation, considering the opening screen of an online game, Border Patrol (2013). This interactive game’s theme was one of “keeping them out at all costs!” concerning Latino, namely Mexican, stereotypical immigrants. The three stereotypes portrayed were the “Mexican Nationalist” with a Mexican Flag and pistols decorating the image of the man, the …show more content…
An example can be education, as used in Population and Society by Dudley L. Poston and Leon F. Bouvier. In various studies, demographers have come to show that education is an extremely influential variable on fertility via the intermediate variables. It is thought of this way because with the “more years of education a woman has, the fewer will be her number of children” (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 53). There are many reasons to explain why education has an influence on fertility, but one is the fact women who are more educated tend to put school first, so marriage and kids typically come later in life compared to women who have a shorter amount of time in school (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 53). Education is thus directly impacting the intermediate variables that directly affect …show more content…
Marriage and marital disruptions, 2. Contraceptive use and effectiveness, 3. Prevalence of induced abortion, 4. Duration of postpartum infecundability, 5. Waiting time to conception, 6. Risk of intrauterine morality, and 7. Onset of permanent sterility” (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 54). This concept is illustrated in the Figure 3.3 below. The main idea behind this framework is that fertility is impacted by proximate determinants, but these proximate determinants are influenced by three other factors channeled in while the cultural context sets the environment for each
In fertility discourse, the Latino community presents an interesting dynamic to analyze. Often Latino fertility is viewed as an “out of control” fertility in narratives that depict Latinos as a threat to national security in America in terms of immigration. An example depicting this comes from Leo Chavez’s The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation, considering the opening screen of an online game, Border Patrol (2013). This interactive game’s theme was one of “keeping them out at all costs!” concerning Latino, namely Mexican, stereotypical immigrants. The three stereotypes portrayed were the “Mexican Nationalist” with a Mexican Flag and pistols decorating the image of the man, the …show more content…
An example can be education, as used in Population and Society by Dudley L. Poston and Leon F. Bouvier. In various studies, demographers have come to show that education is an extremely influential variable on fertility via the intermediate variables. It is thought of this way because with the “more years of education a woman has, the fewer will be her number of children” (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 53). There are many reasons to explain why education has an influence on fertility, but one is the fact women who are more educated tend to put school first, so marriage and kids typically come later in life compared to women who have a shorter amount of time in school (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 53). Education is thus directly impacting the intermediate variables that directly affect …show more content…
Marriage and marital disruptions, 2. Contraceptive use and effectiveness, 3. Prevalence of induced abortion, 4. Duration of postpartum infecundability, 5. Waiting time to conception, 6. Risk of intrauterine morality, and 7. Onset of permanent sterility” (Poston & Bouvier, 2010, p. 54). This concept is illustrated in the Figure 3.3 below. The main idea behind this framework is that fertility is impacted by proximate determinants, but these proximate determinants are influenced by three other factors channeled in while the cultural context sets the environment for each