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Feb 28, 2021 · By analyzing census data, Toldson and Marks found that 83% of married Black men who earned at least $100,000 annually got hitched to Black women. The same is the case for educated Black men of all incomes.
- Nadra Kareem Nittle
Oct 29, 2020 · In fact, about 14.4 percent of Black men and 6.5 percent of Black women are in interracial marriages. Whites have a one percent chance of marrying a Black person, up from 0.3 percent in 1980....
Jul 30, 2017 · When researchers tracked same- and mixed-race newlywed couples for 15 years, they found that 66 percent of the white couples were still married, compared with 59 percent of the black couples. In...
- David Ludden Ph.D.
May 18, 2017 · Among black newlyweds, the gender gap in intermarriage increases with education: For those with a high school diploma or less, 17% of men vs. 10% of women are intermarried, while among those with a bachelor’s degree, black men are more than twice as likely as black women to intermarry (30% vs. 13%).
Median age at first marriage has risen for people in the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). Lower proportion of men and women have ever married (Carlson, 2020). Marriage has become selective of the college-educated (Schweizer, 2020). There are stark racial differences in marriage patterns.
Nov 6, 2019 · Since 1995, marriage rates have declined among white, black and Hispanic adults, but for Asian adults they have stayed roughly constant. Cohabitation rates are more consistent across racial and ethnic groups – 8% of whites and Hispanics and 7% of blacks are cohabiting, as are 3% of Asians.
Apr 13, 2023 · Black wives are significantly more likely than wives from other racial or ethnic groups to be the breadwinner in their marriage. This was also the case in 1972. Today, roughly one-in-four Black wives (26%) out-earn their husbands.
