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Stork is on a Spanish mission - Majority of Mile High babies now being born to Hispanic mothers

By Chris Barge, Rocky Mountain News

April 8, 2006

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4606482,00.html

Hispanic women — some of whom have immigrated [correction: migrated illegally] from Mexico — are giving birth to more than half of Denver's newborns, state health department statistics indicate.

That's a big change from 1990, when Denver children were born predominantly to non-Hispanic white women.

Denver's Piton Foundation recently published these and other findings about the metro area's "next generation" after analyzing 14 years of state health department statistics....

The report also found that the odds of succeeding in life are stacked against 40 percent of Denver's newborns — babies whose mothers were either teenagers or lacked a high school diploma in 2004, the most recent year statistics were available....

To read the study in its entirety, visit (http://www.piton.org.)

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