And 56 percent of all Hispanic kids now in the second and third generation are being raised in single-family homes.

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The family undergoes screening, the best second-generation candidate is chosen and the process is repeated.

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In 2002, a survey by the Pew Hispanic Centre and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that over 90% of second-generation Hispanics were either bilingual or mainly English-speaking, split equally between the two.

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