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- Gender: Among blacks and Asians, there are significant differences by gender in the tendency to marry outside their racial group. Black men are more than twice as likely as black women to marry someone outside their race, and the reverse pattern holds true for Asian men and women.
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Jun 12, 2015 · American Indians have the highest interracial marriage rate among all single-race groups. Women are slightly more likely to “marry out” than men in this group: 61% of American Indian female newlyweds married outside their race, compared with 54% of American Indian male newlyweds.
- Wendy Wang
Summary. The United States shows striking racial and ethnic differences in marriage patterns. Compared to both white and Hispanic women, black women marry later in life, are less likely to marry at all, and have higher rates of marital instability.
- R. Kelly Raley, Megan M. Sweeney, Danielle Wondra
- 10.1353/foc.2015.0014
- 2015
- Fall 2015
- Clear Pattern by Sex and Race/Ethnicity
- Pool of Potential Spouses A Factor
- Will Intermarriages Increase?
Figure 2 White Men and Women Who “Married Out” in 2008 by Race/Ethnicity of Spouse Note: “Other” includes American Indians, people identifying with more than one race, and “some other race.” Source: Paul Taylor et al., Marrying Out: One-in-Seven Marriages Is Interracial or Interethnic (Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, 2010). These 2008 marriage...
The likelihood of choosing a marriage partner of another race or ethnic group is also influenced by the available pool of people of the appropriate age and with a similar educational background, because most people marry someone close in age and educational level. Researchers point out that people are more likely to marry outside their race/ethnici...
Will the more tolerant attitudes people express toward intermarriage be matched by actual intermarriage rates? There are many reasons to expect continued increases in intermarriage in coming decades. One prime reason is that the population is becoming increasingly diverse—culturally, ethnically, and racially. Americans reaching marriage age over th...
Jun 4, 2010 · Based on the latest census data, the study showed record highs: 26 percent of Hispanics, 31 percent of Asians, 16 percent of Blacks and nine percent of Whites all married outside their race.
Feb 16, 2012 · About 24% of all black male newlyweds in 2010 married outside their race, compared with just 9% of black female newlyweds. Among Asians, the gender pattern runs the other way. About 36% of Asian female newlyweds married outside their race in 2010, compared with just 17% of Asian male newlyweds.
- Abigail Geiger
Feb 16, 2012 · The share of new marriages between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from each other increased to 15.1% in 2010, and the share of all current marriages that are either interracial or interethnic has reached an all-time high of 8.4%. 1. The upward trend of intermarriage is many decades old.
Mar 30, 2020 · Indeed, interracial marriages are often disparaged in racial minority communities as well. Chuang and colleagues start with the observation that there are quite large gender imbalances in...
