Fertility decline among young Latinas are largely due to the assimilation into American lifestyle, values and attitudes concerning cost of childbearing, which become the means that illustrate the general theory of fertility transition among young Latinas. Research shows that American-born Latinas have a much lower fertility rate than that of immigrant Latinas in the state of California. Organizations like Planned Parenthood note that Latinas today have more access to a wider variety of contraceptives, and they use contraceptives to limit their family size. …
