Integrated Marriages

The paper itself will be organized into four major sections. The first section will outline the problem, and comment on the way in which language is acquired and unique within a given cultural situation. This will be followed by a section on Black and White integrated marriages, and will overview some of the unique problems associated with such. The third section will use children within Black and White integrated marriages as a case study to show how children are confused, not knowing what culture and language truly reflects their own views of life. Finally, the paper will conclude with a summation of the situation within Black and White integrated marriages, the cumulative effects on children, and suggestions for further research.

Interracial children, dubbed "rainbow children" in today's jargon, experience the same difficulties as single race children, but have added

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lackwhite marriages are generally older at the time of marriage than the standard normative age for homogeneous marriages. Furthermore, one must not forget that until 1967, interracial marriages were considered illegal in many states, and thus the statistics may be somewhat skewed. After the 1967 declaration that these laws were unconstitutional, it is not then surprising that the empirical data shows a marked increase in mixed marriages (Bruce and Rodman, 1973: 1589). One vital and important factor in BlackWhite marriages, however, is that of children. Biologically, the children of such a union may manifest mixed characteristics, or the dominant genetic characteristics of one or the other of the parent. One central problem faced by these children is the manner in which they should acknowledge both of their parent's racial heritages in a type of society that categorizes and boxes its citizens into single molds. Clearly, the degree in which the child is able to cope with this problem is related to the manner in which the parent's warn their children about racial discrimination, while at the same time approaching the idea of mixed heritage in a unique and educational manner Buttery, 1987; Norment, 1985). Tom and Jeannine h
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Approximate Word count = 1581
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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