Jesus B. Lopez Family Quiz

Jesus B. Lopez

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Family Quiz

In the article Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006 by Mamadi Corra, Shannon K Carter, J. Scott Carter, and David Knox, these authors have collected data from the General social survey over the period from 1973 through 2006 to conclude findings of Marital Happiness between four groups, Black Husband and Wives and White Husband and Wives. The question within the survey was "Taken things all together, how would you describe your marriage?"  The answers to choose from were are you very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy. Independent variables included Work Status, whether divorced or not, if there was a child under the age of 18 living in the home, age, education, income, and if they were religious.  The figure one table within the article shows both white husbands and white wives as well as black husbands all had a slight drop in happiness from the 1970s to the 1980s.  Black wives had a small increase within that decade.  Between the 1980s and 1990s white husbands and white wives stayed pretty much the same.  Black husbands and black wives had a decrease in happiness within the 80s through 90s period.  Between the 1990s through 2000s we see that white husbands didn't have much of a change and we see white wives becoming less happy.  On the other hand Black husbands have a small rise in happiness and black wives has a huge significant rise in happiness.  We cannot say what exactly happened to have that rise in happiness but we can only assume attributes like contribution of women in the work force, more financial income, better education, etc.  For the decrease in marital happiness for black men can be situations of unemployment and lack of jobs.

The next article I chose was Marital Assimilation Among Hispanics: Evidence of Declining Cultural and Economic Incorporation? By Daniel T. Lichter, J. Brian Brown, Zhenchao Qian and Julie H. Carmalt.  This article uses data from the 1990 and 2000 Census Public Use Microdata Samples to see how intermarriage patterns between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites effects spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation.  The Method of research sampled 155 metropolitan areas that had 25 married couples with one Hispanic partner.  The research only included young married couples with a Hispanic native, or one Hispanic immigrant who immigrated before the age of 20.  This consists of 53,778 couple in the year 1990 and 76,484 couples in the year 2000.  Hispanic intermarriage was measured by the number of Hispanics married to non-Hispanics whites, dived by the total number of couple that includes at least one Hispanic partner.  The findings concluded that intermarriage rates in the 1990s between Hispanics and non-Hispanics whites had declined.  Over the decades social distance between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites has improved and grown.  This can be because education has improved and people are more willing to except the Hispanic race in their communities.  This article like the first does not give complete answers, but it is an area for more study for greater understanding.