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Vincent Kang Fu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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broken boundaries or broken marriages racial Intermarriage and divorce in the united states
Social Science Quarterly, 2011Co-Authors: Vincent Kang Fu, Nicholas H WolfingerAbstract:Objective Several recent studies have investigated the consequences of racial Intermarriage for marital stability. None of these studies properly control for first-order racial differences in divorce risk, therefore failing to appropriately identify the effect of Intermarriage. Our article builds on an earlier generation of studies to develop a model that appropriately identifies the consequences of crossing racial boundaries in matrimony. Methods We analyze the 1995 and 2002 National Survey of Family Growth using a parametric event-history model called a sickle model. To appropriately identify the effect of interracial marriage we use the interaction of wife's race and husband's race. Results We find elevated divorce rates for Latino/white Intermarriages but not for black/white Intermarriages. Seventy-two percent of endogamous Latino marriages remain intact at 15 years, but only 58 percent of Latino husband/white wife and 64 percent of white husband/Latina wife marriages are still intact. Conclusions We have identified an important deficiency in previous studies and provide a straightforward resolution. Although higher rates of Latino/white Intermarriage may indicate more porous group boundaries, the greater instability of these marriages suggests that these boundaries remain resilient.
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remarriage delayed marriage and black white Intermarriage 1968 1995
Population Research and Policy Review, 2010Co-Authors: Vincent Kang FuAbstract:How have changes in marriage order and marriage timing affected 1968–1995 trends in United States Black/White Intermarriage? Researchers usually follow a one-sex perspective on the effects of timing and marriage order on marital selection, arguing that delayed marriages and remarriages will be more heterogamous than early or first marriages. This paper shows that a one-sex perspective is oversimplified and that assortative marriage with respect to race depends on the interaction of both husband’s and wife’s characteristics. Marriages that match with respect to age or marriage order tend to also match with respect to race. First marriages and remarriages for both partners are more likely to be same-race marriages. Marriages that are Intermarriages with respect to marriage order are more likely to also be Intermarriages with respect to race. Marriages that are usual age combinations (husband and wife similar in age or husband slightly older) are also usual race combinations (husband and wife same race). Marriages that are unusual age combinations are more likely to be racial Intermarriages. This paper also shows that trends in remarriage patterns do not account for the increasing trend in racial Intermarriage and that trends in marriage timing have actually slowed increases in racial Intermarriage.
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Racial Intermarriage pairings
Demography, 2001Co-Authors: Vincent Kang FuAbstract:Most studies of racial Intermarriage rely on the prevalence of Intermarriage to measure the strength of group boundaries, without scrutinizing the nature of Intermarriage pairings. Examination of intermarried couples’ characteristics reveals (1) that Intermarriages and endogamous marriages follow different patterns, and (2) that Intermarriage pairings for some groups reflect a generalized racial status hierarchy. According to evidence from the 1990 U.S. Census PUMS, patterns in blacks’ and Mexican Americans’ marriages with whites suggest that a generalized racial status hierarchy disadvantages members of these minority groups. For marriages between Japanese Americans and whites, however, crossing the group boundary does not affect couples’ characteristics.
Evelyn L. Lehrer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religious Intermarriage in the united states determinants and trends
Social Science Research, 1998Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:Abstract This article uses data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households to study the determinants of religious Intermarriage in the United States as well as changes over time in its prevalence. Separate logit regressions are estimated for exclusivist Protestant, ecumenical Protestant, and Catholic respondents. Variables identified as playing a role in the Intermarriage decision include the proportion of coreligionists in the relevant marriage market, various proxies for religiosity and for commitment to the parental faith, education, a premarital pregnancy, and gender. The estimated effects are generally consistent with hypotheses derived from a model of religious Intermarriage. The results also show that the prevalence of religious heterogamy has increased significantly over the past decades for Catholics and ecumenical Protestants. In sharp contrast, there has been no perceptible change in the probability of marrying outside the religion for exclusivist Protestants, a group which continues to display distinctive patterns of economic and demographic behavior.
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RELIGIOUS Intermarriage: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE
Contemporary Jewry, 1991Co-Authors: Carmel U. Chiswick, Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:This paper develops an economic framework for analyzing the relationship between religion and marriage. The economic and demographic implications of religious Intermarriage are farreaching: it is known to be associated with substantially higher rates of marital instability and with lower levels of fertility (Beckeret al, 1977; Lehrer, 1992), thereby also influencing female labor supply and investments in child quality. Religious Intermarriage may be viewed as either a problem or an opportunity by denominations concerned with the size of their membership in the current and future generations. In addition, Intermarriage tends to enhance the melting-pot aspect of the American culture, blurring distinctions along ethnic and religious lines, with important implications for social policy. Yet there is no systematic theoretical model for an economic perspective on the determinants of Intermarriage.
Darren E Sherkat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religious Intermarriage in the united states trends patterns and predictors
Social Science Research, 2004Co-Authors: Darren E SherkatAbstract:Abstract The reciprocal connection between religion and family life makes the topic of religious Intermarriage of particular importance in the sociology of religion. Spousal influences are key for motivating religious switching and other religious commitments. Religious Intermarriage has also been shown to influence a host of other outcomes, including spousal conflict, domestic violence, divorce, and fertility. Using data from the 1973–1994 GSS, I estimate log-multiplicative models examining patterns of association between spouses’ religious affiliations across two broad cohorts. Two-step and FIML Heckman’s selection models are used to determine how education, migration, cohort, and denominational origins influence the probability of Intermarriage and the distance of Intermarriage if it occurs. Religious Intermarriage increases across cohorts, but declines in homogamy are limited to liberal religious groups. Catholics and members of conservative sects are less likely to intermarry compared to others. The relative ordering of distances between religious groups was unchanged across cohorts. Educational attainment increases the likelihood of Intermarriage, and marriages in which the woman has more education are more likely to be heterogamous. However, educational factors have no impact on the distance of Intermarriage if it occurs. Geographically stable rural Southerners are least likely to intermarry and if they do, choose a more similar spouse.
Matthijs Kalmijn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Consequences of racial Intermarriage for children’s social integration
Sociological Perspectives, 2020Co-Authors: Matthijs KalmijnAbstract:Much has been written on ethnic and racial Intermarriage, but little research is available on the social consequences of Intermarriage. Are the children of mixed marriages more strongly connected to the majority, or are they incorporated in the ethnic or racial minority group? To answer this question, this article uses a minority survey from the Netherlands with data collected from both parents and children. The focus is on Antilleans and Surinamese and children of marriages in which both spouses are black are compared to children of marriages in which one spouse is white and one spouse is black. The analyses provide strong support for the integrative effects of Intermarriage on children. These effects are not conditional on the socioeconomic status of the parents. Moreover, the effect on children can be explained in terms of the more diverse meeting opportunities that parents in a mixed marriage provide to their children.
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the children of Intermarriage in four european countries implications for school achievement social contacts and cultural values
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015Co-Authors: Matthijs KalmijnAbstract:This article tests the thesis that Intermarriage fosters the integration of immigrants by studying the children of Intermarriage. Using secondary school–based questionnaire data from England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, I compare the children of mixed marriages to second-generation immigrants and to children of native origins. Three dimensions of integration are measured: social integration (contacts with natives), cultural integration (religiosity and family values), and economic integration (school achievement tests). I examine the effect of Intermarriage on these outcomes as well as interactions with gender, socioeconomic status, destination country, and origin group. Our findings show that the outcomes for the children of mixed origins are in between the outcomes of immigrants and natives. In some respects, mixed children are exactly halfway, confirming a model of additive effects of parental origins. In other cases, mixed children are closer to immigrants than to natives, pointing to a mode...
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consequences of racial Intermarriage for children s social integration
Sociological Perspectives, 2010Co-Authors: Matthijs KalmijnAbstract:Much has been written on ethnic and racial Intermarriage, but little research is available on the social consequences of Intermarriage. Are the children of mixed marriages more strongly connected to the majority, or are they incorporated in the ethnic or racial minority group? To answer this question, this article uses a minority survey from the Netherlands with data collected from both parents and children. The focus is on Antilleans and Surinamese and children of marriages in which both spouses are black are compared to children of marriages in which one spouse is white and one spouse is black. The analyses provide strong support for the integrative effects of Intermarriage on children. These effects are not conditional on the socioeconomic status of the parents. Moreover, the effect on children can be explained in terms of the more diverse meeting opportunities that parents in a mixed marriage provide to their children.
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ethnic Intermarriage in the netherlands confirmations and refutations of accepted insights
European Journal of Population-revue Europeenne De Demographie, 2006Co-Authors: Matthijs Kalmijn, Frank Van TubergenAbstract:Previous studies on ethnic Intermarriage have been done mainly in the United States and in other classical immigration countries. This article examines ethnic Intermarriage among Surinamese, Dutch Antilleans, Turks, and Moroccans in the Netherlands. From a theoretical and empirical perspective, it is important to examine whether patterns observed earlier in traditional immigrant countries equally apply to the Dutch context. To obtain a sufficiently large sample, this study pools five nationally representative surveys, conducted in the period 1988–2002. In line with findings documented before, it observes that ethnic exogamy occurs more frequently among the second generation, and among those who arrived at a younger age, and who are higher educated. Equally corresponding to previous work, the study reports that ethnic Intermarriage is more frequent when the group-specific sex ratio is more uneven and when the ethnic group is predominantly second generation. Contrary to findings observed elsewhere, results show that the black Surinamese and Dutch Antilleans have high Intermarriage rates and that there is little evidence for status exchange in mixed marriages.
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trends in black white Intermarriage
Social Forces, 1993Co-Authors: Matthijs KalmijnAbstract:I examine annual marriage license data for 33 states from 1968 to 1986 to assess how the role of the black/white color line in marriage choice has changed. The analyses generally show that black/white Intermarriage has increased rapidly since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the legal ban on Intermarriage. I further show that this trend is especially pronounced among black males and that the status characteristics of these marriages have remained traditional in the sense that Intermarriage still occurs primarily when the white woman marries up in socioeconomic status. In my conclusion I offer several interpretations of why the link between status and interracial marriage persists and discuss what this implies for the nature of racial differentiation in contemporary American society. (EXCERPT)
Miri Song - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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multiracial people and their partners in britain extending the link between Intermarriage and integration
Ethnicities, 2016Co-Authors: Miri SongAbstract:There are now a growing number of studies on Intermarriage in Western multi-ethnic societies, especially in countries with post-colonial migrants (and their descendants). Intermarriage is of great ...
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toward building a conceptual framework on Intermarriage
Ethnicities, 2016Co-Authors: Sayaka Osanami Torngren, Nahikari Irastorza, Miri SongAbstract:Increasing migration worldwide and the cultural diversity generated as a consequence of international migration has facilitated the unions of people from different countries, religions, races, and ethnicities. Such unions are often celebrated as a sign of integration; however, at the same time as they challenge people's idea of us and them, Intermarriages in fact still remain controversial, and even to some extent, taboo in many societies. Research and theorizing on Intermarriage is conducted predominantly in the English-speaking North American and British contexts. This special issue includes empirical studies from not only the English-speaking countries such as the U.S., Canada, and the UK, but also from Japan, Sweden, Belgium, France, and Spain and demonstrate the increasingly diverse directions taken in the study of Intermarriage in regards to the patterns, experiences, and social implications of Intermarriages. Moreover, the articles address the assumed link between Intermarriage and “integration.”
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what constitutes Intermarriage for multiracial people in britain
Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015Co-Authors: Miri SongAbstract:Intermarriage is of great interest to analysts because a group’s tendency to partner across ethnic boundaries is usually seen as a key indicator of the social distance between groups in a multiethnic society. Theories of Intermarriage as a key indicator of integration are, however, typically premised upon the union of white and nonwhite individuals, and we know very little about what happens in the unions of multiracial people, who are the children of intermarried couples. What constitutes Intermarriage for multiracial people? Do multiracial individuals think that ethnic or racial ancestries are a defining aspect of their relationships with their partners? In this article, I argue that there are no conventions for how we characterize endogamous or exogamous relationships for multiracial people. I then draw on examples of how multiracial people and their partners in Britain regard their relationships with their partners and the significance of their and their partners’ ethnic and racial backgrounds. I argue that partners’ specific ancestries do not necessarily predict the ways in which multiracial individuals regard their partners’ ethnic and racial backgrounds as constituting difference or commonality within their relationships.
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is Intermarriage a good indicator of integration
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Miri SongAbstract:In this paper I review and examine the assumed link between Intermarriage and integration. I focus primarily on literature from the US and Britain. Intermarriage is said to signal a significant lessening of ‘social distance’ between a minority group and the White majority, enabling unions between groups which would previously have been taboo. It is often assumed that Intermarriage for ethnic minorities is the ultimate litmus test of integration, but is it? And if there is a link between Intermarriage and integration, what is the nature and extent of ‘integration’ achieved by minority groups and by the minority partner? I argue that the link between Intermarriage and integration is both more tenuous and more complex than many social scientists have argued, and needs a critical reappraisal, especially in multiethnic societies which are witnessing unprecedented levels of diversity, both across and within their ethnic minority groups.