Low effort dump of studies on interracial relationships/families and related topics:
Interracial marriage is associated with increases in severe distress for Native American men, white women, and for Hispanic men and women married to non-white spouses, compared to endogamous members of the same groups. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
“The authors found multiracial adolescents reporting higher rates of problem behaviors. Several significant relationships between ethnic identity and racial discrimination were found with these problem behaviors.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569131/
“the accounts show that mixed race children and young people do experience greater risks to their mental health as they struggle to develop an identity for themselves which they find comfortable.”archive.is/ISpHM
“Overall, the current findings provide evidence that interracial couples elicit disgust and are dehumanized relative to same-race couples.”sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
"Our analysis suggests, at best, only a weak association between H and FA, and heterozygosity seems to explain only a very small amount of the variation in developmental instability among individuals and populations" nature.com/articles/68855…
"Significant differences in perinatal outcomes exist between Asian, white, and interracial Asian-white couples." ajog.org/article/S0002-…
adolescents who identify more than 1 race are at higher health and behavior risks when compared with those who identify with 1 race only. This applies in a general way and is not distinctive to any particular race combinations. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
“Specifically, our results indicate that nonblack individuals with black partners have significantly more depressive symptoms and less relationship satisfaction than their counterparts with nonblack partners”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22081799/
“Our results, drawn from all known couples of the Icelandic population born between 1800 and 1965, show a significant positive association between kinship and fertility, with the greatest reproductive success observed for couples related at the level of third and fourth cousins.”
“Thus some support was found for the hypothesis that quality of marriage depends partly on genetic similarity.”sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
“interracial relationships are considerably less likely than same-race relationships to lead to marriage, although differences between these relationships in terms of marriage likelihood appear to have lessened in more recent years.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
"The risk of victimization was greater for spouses in interracial than in intraracial marriages and increased as age differences between spouses increased." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2705594/
"Using a nationally representative sample, regression analyses indicated that interracial couples demonstrated a higher level of mutual IPV than monoracial white couples but a level similar to monoracial black couples." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Past year prevalence rates for any occurrence of IPV and acts of severe IPV were higher for interethnic couples relative to intra-ethnic couples. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
on a host of background and achievement characteristics, mixed race adolescents fall in between whites and blacks. When it comes to engaging in risky/anti-social adolescent behavior, however, mixed race adolescents are stark outliers nber.org/papers/w14192
Mixed race may be more attractive dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
"Multiracial individuals reported more health problems than Asians or Caucasians. " archive.is/RExnL
Infant mortality by race in CA
Review of book about mixed race health with response from author archive.is/enktV
"We found no consistent evidence, however, that multiracial adolescents as a group face more difficulty in adolescence than members of other racial and ethnic minority groups." tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.111…
"Overall, there were no significant differences in poor self-rated health status of multiracial adults as a single group odds ratio 0.84 (95% CI: 0.52-1.36) compared to monoracial White adults." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28658965/
"The greatest prevalence of
current asthma, however, occurs among
individuals of multiracial background" web.archive.org/web/2019071616…
Likelihood of getting less than 7 hours of sleep a night archive.is/lDw2O
Meta-analysis "Biracial status of parents was associated with higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes than both White parents but lower than both Black parents, with maternal race having a greater influence than paternal race on pregnancy outcomes." obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Politics of mixed race people:
It seems like there are a lot of mental health issues and some physical health issues associated with being mixed race, and that interracial couples generally do worse on desirable outcomes.
How ever most multiracials feel proud of their identity, despite feeling slightly less satisfied with their lives than the general public.
It is interesting that there are health issues, because Hispanics are also mixed race, and they live longer than whites, hence the "Hispanic health paradox". It is possible that this could be due to the types of people who marry out.
It would be interesting to compare the increased prevalence risk of your child having an adverse health issues between race-mixing and cousin marriage.
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