high school dropout for Mexican origin and White non-Hispanic youths. With respect to reasons for high school dropout, we … found they are related with early adulthood. For Mexican origin young people, the first child or pregnancy is the main …

present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in … ubiquitous theory that Mexican pronatalist values are responsible for the high fertility rates found within the Mexican-Origin … population in the U.S. Instead, they point to the increasing relevance of framing the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin …