hejola report for 02172011

Hejola report for 02172011.
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Kingsville,tx. Hello I am Bill Diaz con today’s award winning barrio headline news:
Common law marriages up in the hood.
Divorces down for 2010 compared to 1999.
And more single parents in the hood than ever.
Yesterday our barrio community center presented to a pack house of 8 people wanting to know the result of this survey taken a few months back. The intention of this study says Irma Salinas the community aide was to determined the status of community members and their families. Here are the results from that study.
1. The study indicated that there are more common law marriages in the hood now than ever before. Community leaders feel that the loss of revenue in not selling marriage licenses could see a decrease in city and county services. There are several reasons why folks are not getting married says Irma but that’s another study.
2. The study also discovered that the divorce rate has come down since 1999. And of course there are some indicators that indicate that due to the fact that barrio members are not getting married.
3. And finally the study indicated that there are more single parents than ever. And of course many barrio members that are living together are more common law marriage than married. So when they apply for state and federal aid off course they indicated not married but they really are but common law marriage but in some cases the state does not recognize common law marriages.


Irma also pointed out that the crime rate had gone down more than 85 percent since 1952. So there are lots of thing to be excited about in the hood than ever before. After the meeting refreshments were served for single parents. Wine and beer and some cheese play an important role in trying to lure folks to attend more community center meetings.