Context of Interracial Childbearing in the United States

Qian, Zhenchao; Shen, Yifan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48519-1_5

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“…Unfortunately, official government tabulations based on the CDC's birth registration system reports racial differentials in fertility based on the mothers' racial classifications. The approach assumes, quite wrongly, that male partners necessarily share mothers' racial backgrounds (Qian & Shen, 2020). As we have shown in this study, recent fertility data from the American Community Survey on different racial pairings suggest that official estimates may seriously misrepresent racial differentials in fertility to the extent that interracial marital and cohabiting couples are increasing—and increasingly having children.…”

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“…Our paper has several limitations. With the ACS, we were unable to consider fertility that results from other kinds of romantic or intimate relationships, including casual sexual relationships, same‐sex married and cohabiting couples, or older unmarried women who hope to become mothers through assisted reproductive technologies (see Qian & Shen, 2020). In addition, due to data and reporting limitations, we included couples who were cohabiting at the time of survey, but compared their fertility to couples who married in the past 5 years.…”

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“…The CDC did not report biracial or mixed‐race births until 2016, identifying the race or ethnicity of newborn infants based on the reported race and ethnicity of mothers only. Although registration data now include information about fathers' race/ethnicity, the CDC does not report fertility rates by racial pairings of both parents (Qian & Shen, 2020). However, such estimates are now available from nationally representative data on past‐year fertility for marital and cohabiting unions identified in the American Community Survey .…”

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Racial Pairings and Fertility: Do Interracial Couples Have Fewer Children?

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Lichter

2021

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective Our overall goal is largely descriptive—to compare recent fertility patterns between racially endogamous and exogamous couples in the United States. Evidence of lower fertility among exogamous or interracial couples arguably provides indirect evidence of social distance and cultural and economic integration. Background The growth of interracial marriage and cohabitation has fueled the rise in biracial or mixed‐race children. Fertility rates are uneven among racial and ethnic groups, seemingly rooted in stigma and cultural differences (e.g., fertility norms). Whether fertility is different among interracial couples is unclear: Fertility rates that largely conform to the population of racially endogamous White couples provide evidence of social integration whereas differential fertility may reveal gender dynamics in fertility decision‐making, including power relationships that depend on the race of male and female partners. Method We pool data from the 2008 to 2017 American Community Survey to compare past‐year fertility patterns among endogamously and interracially married and cohabiting couples. Results Fertility is generally lower among racially exogamous than endogamous unions, especially among Asian American‐White couples. Fertility among American Indian‐White couples is much closer to patterns of White couples than of American Indian couples. Fertility among other interracial couples nevertheless varies by the race of male partners. That is, fertility of the Black male/White female and the Hispanic male/White female couples is similar to patterns found among endogamous Black and Hispanic couples, respectively. The White male/Black female and the White male/Hispanic female couples follow the fertility patterns of White couples. Conclusion In general, the fertility levels of interracial couples are intermediate between those of endogamous White couples and their endogamous Black, Hispanic, or American Indian counterparts, but vary significantly by the race‐gender mix of partners.

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