Abstract
The United States faces a rapidly changing demographic landscape with an increasing multiracial and multicultural population. These changes largely result from three major factors: progressive aging and low birth rate of its European-origin population, lower mean ages and increasing birth rates in non-European minority groups, and a significant rise in immigration from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. By the year 2050, European-origin Americans will no longer be the numerical majority; this will happen before 2030 among children younger than 18 years and is already true among 6-year-olds. 1 U.S. Office of the Surgeon General Mental Health: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: A Supplement to the Surgeon Generals Report on Mental Health. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington2001 Google Scholar These growing populations of children are diverse in their racial, ethnic, national origin, immigration, and socioeconomic makeup. However, as a group, they are different from the older, European-origin, white, and higher socioeconomic mainstream population.
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