Marriages today are not your traditional weddings. Over the past 50 years, there have been major changes in marriages. According to Pew Research Center (2010), some people think the present institution of marriage is becoming an obsolete. In other words, marriages are out of date or no longer exist. Traditional marriages use to consist of a men, women, and a child/children whereas now marriages consists of same sex marriages, interracial/interethnic marriages, common law marriages, and/or no marriage at all. In this paper, I will explain and describe some of the contemporary marriages and the importance of it by providing information from the book Diversity in Families and in the article “The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families”.
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Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells (2015) stated that marring someone outside of your race, ethnicity, or religion was considered to be wrong. For example, an African-American man was not allowed to like, date, or marry a white woman in the south. If so, he would be punish for it. For most of these men, they had to hide their relationship and/or marriage. It wasn’t until 1967 when the U.S Supreme Court overturned miscegenation laws in 16 states (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, 2015). Most of these states were Southern. Interracial marriages are more acceptable in the U.S then it was in the early 1900’s. For example, “interracial/interracial marriages have increased from 3.2 percent of all U.S. marriages in 1980 to 6.8 percent in 2000 and 8.4 percent in 2012” (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, 2015, p. 262). Races that are most likely to marry interracial couples today are Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, …show more content…
Contemporary marriages play a major role in people’s life. During the 1900’s, many couples were not allowed to marry someone of a different race/religion or of the same sex. However, there were several laws or acts placed to change this. Couples who are married today are heterosexual, homosexual, and interracial. The importance of learning about contemporary marriages is to gain insights and awareness. Unfortunately for some of these folks, same-sex or interracial marriages continues to be a problem in other
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Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells (2015) stated that marring someone outside of your race, ethnicity, or religion was considered to be wrong. For example, an African-American man was not allowed to like, date, or marry a white woman in the south. If so, he would be punish for it. For most of these men, they had to hide their relationship and/or marriage. It wasn’t until 1967 when the U.S Supreme Court overturned miscegenation laws in 16 states (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, 2015). Most of these states were Southern. Interracial marriages are more acceptable in the U.S then it was in the early 1900’s. For example, “interracial/interracial marriages have increased from 3.2 percent of all U.S. marriages in 1980 to 6.8 percent in 2000 and 8.4 percent in 2012” (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, 2015, p. 262). Races that are most likely to marry interracial couples today are Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians (Zinn, Eitzen, & Wells, …show more content…
Contemporary marriages play a major role in people’s life. During the 1900’s, many couples were not allowed to marry someone of a different race/religion or of the same sex. However, there were several laws or acts placed to change this. Couples who are married today are heterosexual, homosexual, and interracial. The importance of learning about contemporary marriages is to gain insights and awareness. Unfortunately for some of these folks, same-sex or interracial marriages continues to be a problem in other