Editing Miscegenation (section)

===United States===
According to the U.S. [[Census]],<ref>[https://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t19/tab01.pdf Hispanic Origin and Race of Coupled Households: 2000] U.S. Census. Retrieved 29 June 2007.</ref> in 2000 there were 504,119 Asian–white marriages, 287,576 black-white marriages, and 31,271 Asian–black marriages. The black–white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 403,000 in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-05-interracial-dating_N.htm|title=More black women consider 'dating out'|website=USA Today|access-date=22 October 2017}}</ref> and 558,000 in 2010,<ref>{{cite web |title=Table FG4. Married Couple Family Groups, by Presence of Own Children In Specific Age Groups, and Age, Earnings, Education, and Race and Hispanic Origin of Both Spouses: 2010 (thousands)|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2010.html|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> according to Census Bureau figures.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18090277 After 40 years, interracial marriage flourishing]. NBC News. 15 April 2007.</ref>

In the United States, rates of interracial [[cohabitation]] are significantly higher than those of marriage. Although only 7 percent of married African American men have Caucasian American wives, 13% of cohabitating African American men have Caucasian American partners. 25% of married Asian American women have Caucasian spouses, but 45% of cohabitating Asian American women are with Caucasian American men. Of cohabiting Asian men, slightly over 37% of Asian men have white female partners over 10% married White American women.<ref name="Swanbrow">{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2000/Mar00/r032300a |title=Intimate Relationships Between Races More Common Than Thought |last=Swanbrow |first=Diane |date=23 March 2000 |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=15 July 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://www.modelminority.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=416:degrading-stereotypes-ruin-dating-experience-&catid=37:dating&Itemid=56 Degrading Stereotypes Ruin Dating Experience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000013/http://www.modelminority.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=416%3Adegrading-stereotypes-ruin-dating-experience-&catid=37%3Adating&Itemid=56 |date=4 March 2016 }}. Modelminority.com (22 October 2002). Retrieved 11 December 2011.</ref> Asian American women and Asian American men who live with a white partner, 40 and 27 percent, respectively (Le, 2006b). In 2008, of new marriages including an Asian man, 80% were to an Asian spouse and 14% to a White spouse; of new marriages involving an Asian woman, 61% were to an Asian spouse and 31% to a White spouse.<ref>Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Wang and Paul Taylor [http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/755-marrying-out.pdf Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages Is Interracial or Interethnic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611003916/http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/755-marrying-out.pdf |date=11 June 2016 }}. (PDF). Pew Research Center. 4 June 2010</ref> Almost 30% of Asians and Latinos outmarry, with 86.8 and 90% of these, respectively, being to a white person.<ref>{{Cite book
|last = McClain DaCosta
|first = Kimberly
|title = Making multiracials: state, family, and market in the redrawing of the color line
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9WFAUYfFV2QC&pg=PA9
|publisher = Stanford University Press
|year = 2007
|page = 9
|isbn = 978-0-8047-5546-7
}}
</ref> According to Karyn Langhorne Folan, "although the most recent census available reported that 70% of [[African American women]] are single, African American women have the greatest resistance to marrying 'out' of the race."<ref>{{Cite book
|last = Langhorne Folan
|first = Karyn
|title = Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions That Keep Black Women from Dating Out
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4xBRucoPhD0C&pg=PA11
|publisher = Simon and Schuster
|year = 2010
|page = 11
|isbn = 978-1-4391-5475-5}}
</ref>

One survey revealed that 19% of black men had engaged in sexual activity with white women.<ref name="smallpox">{{Cite book
|last = Staples
|first = Robert
|title = Exploring black sexuality
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lm8mUih8Q2YC&pg=PA124
|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield
|year = 2006
|page = 124
|isbn = 978-0-7425-4659-2}}
</ref> A [[Gallup poll]] on interracial dating in June 2006 found 75% of Americans approving of a white man dating a black woman, and 71% approving of a black man dating a white woman. Among people between the ages of 18 and 29, the poll found that 95% approved of blacks and whites dating, and about 60% said they had dated someone of a different race.<ref>"[https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-07-colorblind_x.htm New generation doesn't blink at interracial relationships]". USA Today (2 August 2006).</ref> 69% of Hispanics, 52% of non-Hispanic blacks, and 45% of non-Hispanic whites said they had dated someone of another race or ethnic group.<ref>"[http://www.gallup.com/poll/19033/Most-Americans-Approve-Interracial-Dating.aspx Most Americans Approve of Interracial Dating]". Gallup.com. 7 October 2005.</ref> In 1980, just 17% of all respondents said they had dated someone from a different racial background.<ref>"[http://fll.stcloudstate.edu/classes/English191Spring2001/Heather_Huston_CrosCultural.htm Interracial and Cross Cultural Dating of Generation Y] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003822/http://fll.stcloudstate.edu/classes/English191Spring2001/Heather_Huston_CrosCultural.htm |date=4 March 2016 }}". St. Cloud State University.</ref>

[[File:BenToddJealousFamily.jpg|thumb|upright|Former [[NAACP]] President [[Ben Jealous]] is the son of a white father and a black mother.]]

However, according to a study from the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]], using data from over 1 million profiles of singles from [[Online dating website|online dating websites]], whites were far more reluctant to date outside their race than non-whites. The study found that over 80% of whites, including whites who stated no racial preference, contacted other whites, whereas about 3% of whites contacted blacks, a result that held for younger and older participants. Only 5% of whites responded to inquiries from blacks. Black participants were ten times more likely to contact whites than whites were to contact blacks, however black participants sent inquiries to other blacks more often than otherwise.<ref>"[http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/11/onlinedating/ In online dating, blacks more open to romancing whites than vice versa]". Berkeley.edu 11 February 2011.</ref><ref>"[https://healthland.time.com/2011/02/22/love-isnt-color-blind-white-online-daters-spurn-blacks/ Love Isn't Color-Blind: White Online Daters Spurn Blacks]". ''Time''. 22 February. 2011</ref>

Interracial marriage is still relatively uncommon, despite the increasing rate. In 2010, 15% of new marriages were interracial, and of those only 9% of Whites married outside of their race. However, this takes into account inter ethnic marriages, meaning it counts [[White Hispanic and Latino Americans|white Hispanics]] marrying [[non-Hispanic whites]] as interracial marriages, despite both bride and groom being racially [[White Americans|white]]. Of the 275,000 new interracial marriages in 2010, 43% were white-Hispanic, 14.4% were white-Asian, 11.9% were white-black and the rest were other combinations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204880404577226981780914906?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories|title=More Marriages Cross Race, Ethnicity Lines|work=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Theosophical University Press|access-date=18 February 2012|first=Miriam|last=Jordan|date=17 February 2012}}</ref> However, interracial marriage has become more common over the past decades due to increasing racial diversity, and liberalizing attitudes toward the practice. The number of interracial marriages in the United States increased by 65% between 1990 and 2000, and by 20% between 2000 and 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/interracial-marriage-stil_n_590459.html |title=Interracial Marriage Still Rising, But Not As Fast: Report |last=Yen |first=Hope |date=26 May 2010 |work=HuffPost |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> "A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. ... Rates more than doubled among whites and nearly tripled among blacks between 1980 and 2008. But for both Hispanics and Asians, rates were nearly identical in 2008 and 1980", according to a [[Pew Research Center]] analysis of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.<ref>"[http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1616/american-marriage-interracial-interethnic Marrying Out]". Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Wang and Paul Taylor, Pew Research Center. 4 June 2010.</ref>

According to studies by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King made publicly available on the [[Education Resources Information Center]], White female-Black male and White female-Asian male marriages are more prone to [[divorce]] than White-White pairings.<ref name="ERIC">{{Cite journal | last1 = Bratter | first1 = J. L. | last2 = King | first2 = R. B. | doi = 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00491.x | title = 'But Will It Last?': Marital Instability Among Interracial and Same-Race Couples | journal = Family Relations | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 160–171 | year = 2008 | s2cid = 146490809 }}</ref> Conversely, unions between White males and non-White females (and between Hispanics and non-Hispanic persons) have similar or lower risks of divorce than White-White marriages, unions between white male-black female last longer than white-white pairings or white-Asian pairings.<ref name="ERIC" />