Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?
This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.
My children don't look Hispanic.
Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don't speak a word of Spanish, and we're thinking of deporting them. That doesn't make sense.