The effect of native-language retention and insecurity on Asian Indian fertility in the United States.

The relationship of social/psychological insecurity and native-language retention to fertility was explored among a nationally representative sample of 3,408 endogamously wed Asian Indian women living in the United States. Native-language retention had a negative impact on Asian Indian women's fertility that cannot be explained by the normative dimension of the minority group status hypothesis (Goldscheider & Uhlenberg, 1969); therefore, alternative explanations for minority fertility differentials are required.