
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
This paper looks back at marriages from 1990 to 2001. The main result is that most marriages are within racial groups:
Approximately 2,059 couples (8.9% of the sample) divorced or separated during the time interval they were followed in the SIPP. The majority (93.5%) of the couples in our sample were endogamous, including 77.4% White-White, 6.4% Black-Black, 7% Hispanic-Hispanic, and 2.7% Asian-Asian couples. The remaining 6.5% of couples were interracially married (including 1% White-Black, 3.5% White-Hispanic, 1.4% White-Asian pairings, and 0.6% of all types of minority-minority marriages combined). Consistent with prior studies (e.g., Qian, 1997), there are distinct racial or ethnic differences in being in an interracial marriage (results not shown). Blacks are substantially less likely than Hispanics or Asians to have a White spouse (10.1% vs. 23.5% and 24.6%, respectively).
That summary packs a considerable punch. One in 11 couples have divorced/separated in the study period of roughly 4 years. Most couples had stuck to their own race when choosing a spouse, only 1 in 15 going outside their racial grouping. Hispanics and Asians wed across racial boundaries with Whites, Blacks far less so.
Here are the results, ranked by divorce rates:
First, these are not plain scores, but hazard ratios based on the white couple divorce rate as a benchmark. So, the rates more than 1 can be considered “percentages above average” and those less than 1 are “percentages below average”.
Hazard ratios may mean well, but they are complicated to handle. Marriage isn’t that much of a hazard, not usually anyway.
So, “Black husband-White wife” couples are 85% more likely to divorce than a white couple.
Asian husband-Asian wife” are (100-14) = 86% less likely to divorce than a white couple.
All the others are in between, but the general sequence of broken marriages is Black-Hispanic-White-Asian. Interestingly, this is the inverse of the group intelligence scores. Perhaps the marriage of true minds requires both parties to solve the ultimate intelligence test: will I get on with this person in the long-term?

Black husbands with White wives split up often. Their chance of divorce is 85% higher than the reference level of a white husband and a white wife. As marriages go, these go all too quickly.
Even Black husbands with Black wives don’t prosper, despite racial and cultural matching which would predict a successful pairing, in that they are 69% more likely to divorce than the white reference level. Furthermore, when Black wives marry White husbands they ameliorate their dismal marriage survival chances somewhat, but still end up 58% more likely to divorce than white couples.
On these data, Black men and women are not the marrying kind. Why is this so? Some possible reasons are that they choose less well, or expect too much, or offer too little. Broader hypotheses have been offered, about cultural pressures generally, or about historical effects of welfare legislation, the latter argued by Thomas Sowell, who regards the reduction of marriage rates as due to the perverse incentives of welfare payments. Whatever the reason, their marriages are more at hazard than other races.
Hispanic husbands with White wives are less divorce-prone, but still 33% more likely to split. White husbands with Hispanic wives are a better bet, but still 11% worse than white couples.
White couples are the reference group.
Marriage works best when Asians are involved, and they are the ones who can claim their marriages are made in heaven. Putting in a white wife or white husband reduces this heavenly state roughly five-fold.
In race-discordant marriages, Black husbands are much more injurious to White Wife marriages than Black wives are to White Man marriages; Hispanic husbands more injurious White Wife marriages than Hispanic wives are to White husbands, White husbands a bit more injurious to Asian wives than white wives are to Asian husbands.
What can we say about all these figures? Why not start with the obvious: black men and women are 12 times more likely to divorce than Asians. Hispanic men and women are 6 times more likely to divorce than Asians. Given these findings, we should be asking Asians for marriage advice.
Why not then look at the next obvious finding: a White woman’s chances of divorce are 85% higher with a Black man and 33% higher with a Hispanic man compared to marrying a White man.
A Hispanic woman’s chances of a divorce are 22% points higher if she marries a White man than a fellow Hispanic man.
An Asian woman’s chances of divorce are much, much higher with a White husband than a fellow Asian one.
What is to be done? Perhaps, despite all the tracts written about marital choices, it is at heart an intelligence test: will I get on well enough to live together for ever?
I don’t do policy, but at least circulating these figures could be considered a charitable act for all parties concerned.

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Racial “oppression” or welfare have nothing to do with failed black marriages. In Africa, monogamy is virtually unknown. African males have many girlfriends and wives. This has been their culture for over 100,000 years. It’s why the HIV-AIDS rate is 40 times higher in African countries than white ones. Blacks simply lack intelligence, lack a sense of delayed gratification and lack self-control. It’s in their genes it’s in their brains and it shows in their attitudes.
And yet, look at the booming population of Africa. The ((Jew)) looks at that booming population as consumers ripe for harvesting. The ostensibly more intelligent Anglo Whites have let the ((Jews)) run amok in the Anglosphere, consequently, the US increasingly “lacks intelligence, lacks a sense of delayed gratification and lacks self-control. It’s in their genes it’s in their brains and it shows in their attitudes.”
The ostensibly more intelligent Anglosphere Whites opened up the borders under globalism, and physically imported the Blacks under slavery. So how long have these supposedly superior Anglosphere Whites lacked intelligence, lacked a sense of delayed gratification, lacked self-control?
The Judas Class must be destroyed.
They have 12 times the divorce rate of Asian couples, whereas whites have “only” 7 times the divorce rate. An Asian person reading these statistics might reasonably conclude that neither whites nor blacks are the marrying kind.
Black husbands are much more injurious to White Wife Don’t see it on telly but it’s true.
Why not teach your kids to select for intelligent, industrious, and well raised people? If the racist hypothesis is correct, your children will not marry a black person.
You can add more criteria to exclude other racial groups too. Maybe this problem can be attacked indirectly?
Emanuel McLittle, a Black psychologist, wrote an article titled Mixed Up: The Case Against Interracial Marriage
https://web.archive.org/web/20180826034207/http://www.wildernesschurch.com/articles/mixedup.htm
Extract:
I have counseled many mixed couples who falsely believed the races carry no psychological/spiritual differences. I have rarely spoken to such a couple who see marital troubles were not compounded by an undiscovered motive to escape the psychological environment that formed them as children
Unfortunately, his web site is gone and no one knows what happened to him, either, at least according to reddit. I do recall seeing a video of a speech he gave in the 90s to a conservative group. I was much impressed with him.
Who is to say who is “coping” when they choose a marriage partner?
What’s impressively depressing is that there’s a 9% average chance of divorcing within 4 years.
Do you or Twinkie know if the figures are split between those with and without children? I’d have thought divorce was a lot easier to consider and implement where there are no children.
It would be interesting to control for IQ. Do marriages between high IQ blacks do as well as those between comparably high IQ white or Asian pairs? If not then that would argue against the idea of marriage choice as an intelligence test.
I would like to see the figures on marital happiness among the various NON-divorcing couples. Let’s say we use a scale of zero (= sour marriage) to 100 (fantastic marriage). We then look at, say, those non-divorcing Asian-Asian couples, and ask, how many 30s do we have?; how many 60’s?; etc. Next, the non-divorcing white-white couples. And so on.
I actually have this all figured out. Early during the courting stage, you simply ask: What do you think about when the dentist is drilling?
“I don’t do policy, but at least circulating these figures could be considered a charitable act for all parties concerned.”
Biden’s bro’s gotta’ jump right on this: it’s time for divorce equity. Better start bustin’ up some of those happily married White & Asian couples ’til the White & Asian rates rocket to Black heights. Maybe they can tax the Whites & Asians at 100% so they’ll have to go on welfare & can have more children out of wedlock too; then we can have illegitimacy equity as well, at the astronomical Black rate of 77%! Now that would be just so charitable for us all.
Its R/K selection. Thats all.
In general, younger age of first marriage, age and educational differences among the spouses (particularly when the husband is more than 2 years younger or less educated than the wife), lower levels of education (less than college), lower income, and having no or fewer young children were significantly associated with instability.
So, your are right.
Haven’t found data directly on your suggested racial comparisons, but among whites the effect of intelligence on divorce rates is very strong.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258150996_The_Relationship_Between_Intelligence_and_Divorce
White Male/Asian Female is Joe’s most liberal and loyal voting block. I am the quintessential white male married to an Asian, and am a max donor to Joe Biden’s campaign.
Joe should laser-focus his efforts on destroying white male/white female couples. More feminism should do the trick.
I wonder how much these different categories might be influenced by immigration.
If you take the time period, and the small numbers, I suspect that the influence of immigration is pretty strong. I live in New England – the only Hispanic and Asian married people I knew in the ’90s we’re from foreign countries.
So, in some instances, I suspect the marriages would be foreign/foreign (same country of origin), perhaps taking place in said foreign country, while in others that were mixed, possibly the white person would be a native, but the spouse a foreigner. I suspect native/foreigner might have a higher rate of divorce, due to cultural factors – for instance, some number of people might be seeking green cards.
Yet the number of intact black marriages was high prior to our anti-Christian cultural revolution and the beginning of LBJ’s welfare policies; both from the ’60s.
This suggests that Thomas Sowell was correct on blaming the welfare state. But it also suggests that traditional Christian culture worked to keep marriages together when it was the dominant culture and most people conformed to its expectations. But that ship has sailed.
That’s funny. I’m a white male married to an Asian female and I despise Biden, his crackhead son and his entire cabinet. That senile corruptocrat has already pulled up neck and neck with Dubya for worst president in my lifetime and with the sabotage of Nordstream he is well positioned to take a commanding lead. You have got to be joking.
I think there may be some exceptions to your rule!
🙂
I would be very interested in an updated study that researched couples that had went through full genome sequencing and analysis before marriage. My full genome sequence has provided me with profound insights into my psychology that clearly would have extreme relevance in terms of long term compatibility with a life partner or people in general. It is hard to imagine how people could make the correct mate choice through mere observation of phenotype alone: many of the more important phenotypes that were reported in my polygenic scores were quite obscure (even to me), though highly relevant.
I no longer can understand how society can continue to ignore genetic truths about personality. Pretending genetics does not exist merely creates the world of hostility that exists now. This gets right to a heart of highly important aspects of daily life that people cherish including having happy children, good and stable marriages, well functioning communities, etc.. Not including the latest genetic science gives you what we have today. In a well structured genetically planned community everyone would reap large benefits. The current blueprint is not picking up on the many dimensions of human experience.
No. Black rates of divorce, separation and illegtimacy have always been terrible.
Interesting link. Thanks.
I looked around for him a bit. Getting pretty off topic though so…
This seems to indicate he was a licensed psychologist in Michigan, but not in Oregon.
https://www.oregon.gov/psychology/Unlicensed/MCLITTLE.EMANUEL_2001-052.pdf
A Reddit thread (your reference?) looking for him two years ago did not have much.
The Zillow page for the address that thread gave for him shows no transactions, but some odd tax changes in 2016-2021.
Is this video (late last year?) him?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=858316008192198
This 1995 WaPo article includes an interview.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1995/08/20/life-in-black-and-right
1992 and 1994 videos on C-SPAN.
https://www.c-span.org/person/?23255/EmmanuelMcLittle
This video has a phone number from about 4 years ago in the comments.
The most recent archive page I see for the top level of the website you linked was March 6th, 2019.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043817/http://www.wildernesschurch.com/
That page gives a Texas address and phone number.
The situation has become much worse over the last 70 years. Here is some historical data.
African American Marriage Patterns
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817998721_95.pdf
Thanks for all your research. I am not mightily skilled at this. I had to ask a family member (male, of course) to even find the link to the original article. I had read the article years ago and never forgot what McLittle had to say and was therefore dismayed to find that his Wilderness Church site was gone.
The M/F ratio of new bachelor’s degrees in the US is about 42%/58%, so over a quarter of women with college degrees won’t be able to marry a man with a degree. This helps to ensure the instability of families, and thus lower fertility and lower quality of offspring, but it is only one of several such effects — reducing the marriage rate, college indoctrination of women with feminist ideology against men in general and being a wife and mother in particular, and pushing women women into further “education” and “careers” with time demands which make rearing children enormously more difficult and expensive — but the main benefit to the depopulation program is simply from having women spend a large fraction of their fertile years chasing a degree.
This wasn’t done by accident, the intent of higher education for women, was to reduce fertility below replacement, reduce and eventually eliminate traditional marriage, reduce the earning power and social status of men and thus prevent family formation — the overall goal of all these effects being the destruction of Western society (or Christendom, as it used to be called) and the slow genocide of the hereditary enemies of the academic Marxists of Eastern European Jewish ancestry who led the push for this policy and for other policies with the same genocidal goal.
the intent of higher education for women was … the slow genocide of the hereditary enemies of the academic Marxists of Eastern European Jewish ancestry
How odd. The push for higher education for women in Britain first flourished in the 19th century, long before there were ” academic Marxists of Eastern European Jewish ancestry” in the country.
Wasn’t Marx a 19th century Jew who lived in London, in 1850? He was a philosopher so sounds academic to me. Germany is Eastern European.
“How odd.” Really. You’re shamelessly and disingenuously conflating an oddball 19th century progressive hobbyhorse cause to allow any women to be admitted to university with the late-20th century media-fueled juggernaut making higher “education” a prerequisite for any woman not to be consigned to the lower classes. You’re also lying in claiming there weren’t academic Marxists of Eastern European Jewish ancestry in the UK in the 19th century, though that lie has a second layer of disingenuousness — the motte of some women being allowed admission was built some decades before the bailey of making a university degree a requirement for social status.
Women — especially and particularly British women — are hardly ever motivated by scholarship, and hardly ever not motivated by status. It’s sad that they have been manipulated to ruin their lives, sadder still for the world and the children they never had.
Wasn’t Marx a 19th century Jew who lived in London, in 1850? He was a philosopher so sounds academic to me. Germany is Eastern European.
He wasn’t an academic – if you think he was name the academic posts he held.
Nor was he from Eastern Europe: he was from Trier, for heaven’s sake.
claiming there weren’t academic Marxists of Eastern European Jewish ancestry in the UK in the 19th century
Name some, then. A dozen will do. You’ll need to choose some who were active before women were admitted to any British universities i.e. before the foundation of London University/University College London in 1826. Bloody difficult to be Marxist in 1826, I must say. Marx was only eight years old.
Blocks are animals. White people are barbarians. Only East Asians are human
This is how to mark a marriage of true minds. WKPD:
[Sweetheart Abbey] … was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband, John de Balliol. After his death, she kept his embalmed heart, contained in a casket of ivory and silver, with her for the rest of her life, and it was buried alongside her when she died. In line with this devotion to her late husband, she named the abbey Dulce Cor (Latin for Sweet Heart)
But nothing lasts forever.
The depredations suffered by the abbey in subsequent periods, however, caused the graves of the foundress and her husband to be lost.
First of all, thank you for doing a deep dive on this.
Put another way, however, a white person who marries an Asian wife or a husband increases the chance of marital success (as my own white wife could attest). 😉
It is highly likely that there is education attainment and class angle to this:

Interesting details, not exactly what I might have predicted. Hispanic very low.
Assuming assortative marriage (which, of course, doesn’t hold 100% and likely varies a great deal by race and race-combinations), this means that:
1. All non-whites who marry whites are up-selected economically compared to same-race marriage group of their own kind.
2. White males who marry non-whites are also up-selected (slightly when marrying black or Hispanic females; highly when marrying Asian females) compared to white-white couples.
3. White females who marry blacks and Hispanics are down-selected.
4. While females who marry Asians are highly up-selected.
Hispanics in America have much lower educational attainment than blacks. They commit crimes at much lower rates than blacks and suffer much less from social dysfunction (higher marriage rate, lower out-of-wedlock birth rate, etc.), but they are less educated and are more likely to work in menial labor:
Figure 27.4. Percentage distribution of educational attainment of adults age 25 and older, by race/ethnicity: 2016
Thanks. Don’t quite understand “White males who marry non-whites are also up-selected (slightly when marrying black or Hispanic females;
Sorry, I didn’t see the above comment before, because it wasn’t reply-tagged to me. But better late than never.
Those white males are up-selected income-wise compared to white males who marry white females (this is assuming assortative marriage and the gaps are not entirely due to their non-white spouses).