ANDRADE, SALLY J.
Aspirations of Adolescent Hispanic Females for Marriage, Children, Education and Employment
Report, National Council of La Raza, U.S. Department of Labor, May 1982
Cohort(s): NLSY79
ID Number: 49
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor

This study provides descriptive profiles of the aspirations of adolescent Hispanic females and males and analyzes the relative differences and similarities among young Hispanics, whites/Anglos, and blacks. Young Hispanic females tended to be married more than other groups, but data from both the NLSY and the High School and Beyond Survey suggest that young white females value marriage somewhat more than Hispanic females. Hispanic females apparently idealize larger size families to a greater extent than white females and expect to have slightly more children, while white females give a higher rating to the importance of having children. Black females were less likely than either Hispanic or white young women to be married, expect to married, and marry early. They were more likely already to have had a child than the other two groups of young women, and while they tended to idealize large families, they had the lowest expectations of having large numbers of children and the highest percentage who did not expect to have any children. Young Hispanic males seemed somewhat more positive about marriage than black males and similar or more positive than white males. In both surveys, Hispanic males were more positive about larger families than were Hispanic females, as was true in the case of Black males and females. Implications for family formation, plans on labor force participation is also discussed. The study concludes overall that no clear- cut pattern emerges that allows one to characterize Hispanics as less motivated or more traditional in their attitudes than their white and black counterparts.

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