Journal of Comparative Family Studies, June 22nd, 2006
INTRODUCTION
Research on marital stability among African Americans has a long history, dating back to the time of DuBois (1899). Ruggles (1997) documents that the marital disruption rates of African Americans have been substantially higher than Whites' since at least the late 1800s. Marital disruption is also more prevalent among Blacks than among Hispanics (Sweet & Bumpass, 1987). There is some evidence that the marital disruption gap between Blacks and non-Blacks has narrowed somewhat since the mid-1900s (Teachman, 2002), but the gap nevertheless remains large.
Previous empirical examina...
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