Some Marriage Problems of Detroit Mexicans

Marital discord is frequently evident in the unions of Mexican men and American women. The existence of such unions and of conflict between partners is proved by social case records and observation in the Detroit Mexican colony. The number, because of the casual nature of many of them, is practically impossible to determine. Detroit school census figures of married Mexican couples show that the number of men born in Mexico is much larger than the number of women born there. Thus, in the 1935 school census, (the last year for which such data are available), 450 Mexican born men were enumerated, while only 162 of their wives were natives of that country. From an examination of these figures it would appear on the surface that inter-nationality marriages were more common than were endogamous Mexican unions. Actually many of the wives enumerated in the census are American born girls of Mexican extraction. One cannot tell from the figures how many of them fall into this category. No culturally induced problem

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  Open Access•Melford E Spiro•American Anthropologist•1955

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