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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 26, 2013 · In 1960, roughly 74% of whites were married, and the rate dropped to 56% in 2008. That is a big drop, but not compared to the plummeting marriage rate for blacks. In 1960, 61% of blacks were married in 1960, but by 2008 it was only 32%. Blacks also get divorced more often and remarry less frequently than whites.
- Dawne Mouzon
For African Americans, between 1950 and 1997, the proportion of births to teenage unwed mothers rose from 36 percent to 96 percent, a 166 percent rise. For whites, the rise was steeper, almost twelvefold (because the base was so much lower), 6 percent in 1950 to 71 percent in 1997.
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The overall race difference in first marriage rates ranges from 15.6 per thousand in 1960 to 28.0 per thousand in 1980. Compared with the massive difference in first marriage rates between economic subgroups and across time, the differences between Black men and White men are comparatively small.
- Steven Ruggles
- Jan-Jun 2022
- 10.4054/demres.2022.46.39
Mar 24, 1997 · “Just under 10 percent of the Black men who married in the 1980s or 1990s married white women,” he reports, “compared to less than 2 percent of Black men who married in the 1940s or 1950s.” Throughout this century, a majority of American Indians have married outside their racial group.
Black marriage rates have been lower than White marriage rates for the past 60 years. Wilson (1987) argued that lower marriage rates in the Black community resulted from a shortage of employed men relative to the number of unmarried women.
May 29, 2020 · Overall, Black Americans have experienced a dramatic decrease in marriage rates over time, from 64% of Black men and 62% of Black women being married in 1950 to 38% of Black men and 33% of Black women being married in 2019 . Black Americans also have higher divorce rates and lower remarriage rates than Whites [4,24].
