{"id":340,"date":"2012-02-16T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/mixed-up-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:40:33","slug":"mixed-up-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/mixed-up-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed up Follow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few days ago about mixed marriages.  Interestingly, the Pew Research Group just published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/02\/16\/the-rise-of-intermarriage\/1\/\">survey<\/a> on mixed marriages in the US.  A few results:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; About 15% of all new marriages in the US in 2010 were interracial, compared with less than 7% in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; About 9% of white, 17% of black, and 27% of Asian newlyweds in 2010 were in interracial marriages.  I think this may partially reflect the ratio of available partners in the general population.  If you are non-white, there are many more potential white spouses than of your own race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Broken down by gender, white men and women were about equally likely to enter interracial marriages (9%), but Asian women were at 36% vs. Asian men at less than 17%.  This mirrored the street scene I saw in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Interracial marriages in general are more likely to divorce, with a notable exception that Asian\/white marriages were LESS likely to divorce than white\/white marriages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few days ago about mixed marriages. Interestingly, the Pew Research Group just published a survey on mixed marriages in the US. A few results: &#8212; About 15% of all new marriages in the US in 2010 were interracial, compared with less than 7% in 1980. &#8212; About 9% of white, 17% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}