After my posts on children being brought up in single parent households, Commentator twinkie has sent me a paper on inter-racial divorce rates. A summary of the results is shown above. YUANTING ZHANG and JENNIFER VAN HOOK Marital Dissolution Among Interracial Couples. Journal of Marriage and Family 71 (February 2009): 95–107
It might be intelligence, but the same racial pattern also holds for criminal behavior, and that sort of difficulty might be more closely related to getting along in marriage.
I sometimes wonder if everything follows this pattern at this point. It's depressing.
I think similar cultures has way more to do with successful than IQ. “White” is such a mismatch of culture especially when you look at Nordic culture vs the Mediterranean cultures or the Russian /Slavic cultures vs British. I am pretty high IQ, but by standard IQ tests, I doubt my husband is similarly as high. We do however share similar cultural backgrounds. He was raised by his Slavic father after his British mother left them. I also have a Slavic family heritage. We are the best of friends and we understand each other so well. We have been married for over 20 years and dated for 5 years before that. He is the BEST thing in my life. I would love to see the stats on marriage of similar cultures.
Has there been an analysis with other variables such as education/ income levels? That could be a key driver across groups.
No black - asian pairing?
marry someone who could be mistaken for a sibling
It might be intelligence, but the same racial pattern also holds for criminal behavior, and that sort of difficulty might be more closely related to getting along in marriage.
I sometimes wonder if everything follows this pattern at this point. It's depressing.
I think similar cultures has way more to do with successful than IQ. “White” is such a mismatch of culture especially when you look at Nordic culture vs the Mediterranean cultures or the Russian /Slavic cultures vs British. I am pretty high IQ, but by standard IQ tests, I doubt my husband is similarly as high. We do however share similar cultural backgrounds. He was raised by his Slavic father after his British mother left them. I also have a Slavic family heritage. We are the best of friends and we understand each other so well. We have been married for over 20 years and dated for 5 years before that. He is the BEST thing in my life. I would love to see the stats on marriage of similar cultures.