Why do immigrants (illegal/legal both) seem to have so many children when they come here?

abadrichgirl3322

Maybe they had a large family in their home country and brought them with them.

Crys H.

Americans are for the most part out for themselves, so it's hard for some to understand this aspect of other cultures. In many cultures, extended family members all contribute to the success of the family. If there are more family members, then there are more people to tend the farms, get jobs, etc. Also, children are supposed to care for their elders as they get older, and many children do not live to see adulthood. So if you have more children, there is a better chance that there will be someone to take care of you in your old age.

me m

Because the liberals of this country doesnt mind paying for them

Annefro

they are able to collect more financial aid with each child they have. They seem to have free medical as well as if not free, close to it, housing as well. I'd like to see an American go to another county and recieve the same benefits immigrants recieve coming here.

locksniffer

i'm guessing they can't afford or have access to birth control until they get to the U.S.

sabine_white

That may be the case in your area , that the Immigrants there have very large families , maybe it's like that everywhere and i just have not noticed , but one thing i have noticed is the fact that many american-born women ( and i use the term lightly,in many cases it needs to be sustituted with the word skanks or hoochies ), are breeding like it's going out of style,no job to support those kids and no fathers worth a crap to help support those kids , yet THEY KEEP BREEDING.
And even tho i don't agree with illegal immigration , at least they have a mom and a dad in that large family , doing everything they can to support each other and those kids.

hexa

I think it's part culture, but mostly they have learned that if you make under 20 or 25 thousand a year you really do not pay taxes. In California they take out for SS, and Medicare, and Disability, the rest state and fed taxes you get back at the end of the year if you claim 0 dependents, but if you claim like 8 kids you get 8 thousand back from the government, the more kids the more money. Their was a guy on the radio that said he new an illegal who claimed he had 8 kids and got back 8 thousand but the kids were not citizens and still lived in Mexico, now if that's not ripping off the government I don't no what is. It's going on all the time from every angle from government to our social services, and it's not just Mexicans, its other illegals from other countries also, if you ever drive by the welfare department and see them lined up it looks like the united nations down their.

idontkno

i think you might be right

old codger

The more rug rats they have the more food stamps they get. No problem the middle class Americans will buy the beans and diapers. That is why the dummycrats still have some seats in congress. No need to work as long as daddy stays away until after 5pm when the social workers get off. Then he can come home and start another beaner.

crow_rez

unless your native american your family was once consdered an immigrant so dont throw rocks when you live in a glass house

truthteller

it is a huge problem, they breed like rats and being catholics doesn't help anything. they will out number the rest of us in not to many years. especially since they start having kids at 12-13 years old and have 12-15 kids , you do the math, freighting isn't it?

jjc92787

I think it's either because big families get more money when they come into the country or foreign countries don't have the birth control we do.

sealRborders

Because they know the TAXPAYERS will have to SUPPORT them??!!

Simplystunning

Many people that practice certain religions are not supposed to use birth control as it is against their religious beliefs. This may be why it seems that some families are so large. Of course these families are concerned about caring for all of their children but often times their religious beliefs impede them from making decisions that would directly go against what their beliefs are.

So, no, it is not true that immigrant families are unconcerned with how many children they bring into the world. Also, the birth of children does not directly correlate to the increase in global warming. More people means more taxing of the natural resources of the world, but not necessarily all brought on by only immigrant families.
Your comments embedded into your question seem to be based on ignorance and appear to be absurd fallacies in your logic. It is unfortunate that you have tried and seemingly failed to tie two issues together that have no basis for comparison.

I stand by my response. If you are proposing that immigrant families are the cause of more global warming singlehandedly without consideration of other population growth throughout the world then you are even more narrow minded that previously suspected. I understand the point you are trying to make and completely disagree with your fallacy laden logic. If it is accurate about growing population without considering those currently in the population that are going to die and thus balance things out population wise then no live births should occur anywhere in the world. This is not feasible let alone realistic.

Fluttery

Most spanish people are catholic,and they don't beleive in birth control.It's against their religion.

Why do you care how many kids somebody has,as long as they take care of them?Back in the day families had 8 to 10 kids.That wasn't odd or unusual then,so why now?

And again:With a name like Juan Carlos,why are thinking like this?You know you've got 10 brothers and sisters.Don't hate on yourself.Hahahaha

MORENITA

WELL here goes: the only reason you see this, and it's true, is because Mexico and all of latin america for that matter is right next to USA, it's easy for low income families to come over (although not anymore) and live a better life. If INDIA OR AFRICA were right here believe me you would see families of 10 immigrating over here. On my recent trip to India I saw HUGE families, especially in the southern part where Catholism had already taken over the faith, and INDIANS were told not to use contraceptives, the families were huge. Families in Kerella, India had so many kids that the kids were sleeping at the shore, instead of the houses. Now imagine THOSE families immigrating over here? THEY CAN'T and the reason the can't is because THEY can afford it =o) plain and simple. the only Indians we see here are the rich ones, from the Braamen class that can afford a plain ticket over here, to the USA. So why do illegals Mexicans have tons of kids when the immigrate over here, it's because the rich Mexicans that do know how to use contraceptives don't need to come over here =o) they are rich, and living happily in MExico!

Mitch H

They have large families for the same reason every other under developed countries have large families. It sounds obsurd to us being americans, but the more children you have, particularly males, the more work is available to your family. Thus, a higher chance of survival.
Also in these under developed countries there is a massive problem w/ the education and availability of any kind of contraceptive.
Population control in under developed countries is a major issue.

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