With Hispanic Americans alone, sixteen percent of them have married outside of their racial group. This is a very large factor in aiding the process of the downfall of the Hispanic family for the basic reason that when marrying outside of the culture one would lose a part of his or her ethnicity. He or she is then sharing a life with someone that does not hold the exact same cultural ideals. In this way a family is not going to adapt to all of the traditions of the Hispanic family, but also not all of the ways of the American family. Thus, the family takes on its own values and ways of functioning, and the Hispanic family begins to be something that only existed in the past.
Interracial marriages can be a good thing.
Even though they may cause the Hispanic family to no longer exist in the way that it traditionally had, good things still come out of it. By looking at teen pregnancies among Hispanic Americans, the breakdown of the traditional family can be explained because the teens in these situations are not carrying out the ideals of the traditional family. They are not married, so there is no father present, and they then are not forming the close knit family that is the basis of the Hispanic family history. The children do not grow up learning the values of the Hispanic family, and then it does not get passed on. The tradition is inevitably on the verge of extinction.