Mormon and Non-Mormon Divorce Patterns

school or early school years and therefore had not reached the age where discrimination would be noticeable to them. However, none of the couples expressed doubts about the wisdom of having interracial children. In only one case did the white mother of an interracial child believe that her Negro neighbors discriminated against her child. With two exceptions, the couples stated that their children would be raised as Negroes, despite, in some cases, a relative absence of definite Negroid features or coloring. In these exceptions, two women-one Negro, the other white-expressed the hope that when their children were older, race relations would have improved to the degree that their mixed parentage would not be important. Significance of the Romantic Complex to Intermarriage. Following Barron,7 it was expected that each couple would maintain that their choice of a spouse of another race was

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