Time to stop painting all Latinos in a single shade of brown From: mercurynews.com

Latinos, for instance, now lead healthier lives when compared with non-Latino whites. Pregnant first-generation women of Mexican heritage display the healthiest prenatal diets and give birth to the most robust babies compared with any other group, say new findings at the National Institutes of Health.

Talk about family values: Over four-fifths of immigrant Latino preschoolers are raised in two-parent households, equaling the share in white families, despite a gaping disparity in average income.Latinos pay a cost to assimilate. Immigrant youngsters initially complete their homework more readily and get higher grades than others who attend the same school. But these indicators go south with more years in California’s public schools, according to New York University’s Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orosco in their new book, “Learning a New Land.” By adapting to tepid teacher expectations and peer norms, the drive to achieve cools out.

Tidy ethnic labels are becoming obsolete with the climbing rates of interracial marriage. The number of children raised by parents of differing ethnic stock climbed fourfold to over 3 million between 1970 and 2000, says the Census Bureau. One in five Latino wives is now married to a non-Latino husband.

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