➡ ♥♥♥ Link: br br br br br br br br br br br br br br br June 12, 1967 in the has been legal in all since the 1967 Supreme Court decision that deemed unconstitutional. The proportion of interracial marriages as a proportion of all marriages has been increasing since, such that 15. Public approval of interracial marriage rose from around 5 in the 1950s to around 80 in the 2000s. The proportion of interracial marriages is markedly different depending on the and of the spouses. The differing ages of individuals, culminating in the divides, have traditionally played a large role in how couples are perceived in society. Interracial marriages have typically been highlighted through two points of view in the United States: and. Egalitarianism's view of interracial marriage is acceptance of the phenomenon, while traditionalists view interracial marriage as and as socially unacceptable. Egalitarian viewpoints typically are held by younger generations, however older generations have an inherent influence on the views of the younger. In Social Trends in America and Strategic Approaches to the Negro Problem 1948 , Swedish economist ranked the social areas where restrictions were imposed on the freedom of by through , from the least to the most important: basic public facility access, social equality, jobs, courts and police, politics and marriage. This ranking scheme illustrates the manner in which the barriers against fell: Of less importance was the segregation in basic public facilities, which was abolished with the. The most tenacious form of legal segregation, the banning of interracial marriage, was not fully lifted until the last were struck down in 1967 by the ruling in the landmark case. The study also observed a clear gender divide in racial preference with regards to marriage: Women of all the races which were studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race for marriage, with the caveat that women only discriminated against Black and Hispanic men, and not against White men. A woman's race was found to have no effect on the men's choices. For example, a study by the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, confirmed that women show a tendency to marry up in socio-economic status; this reduces the probability of marriage of low SES men. Research at the universities of and addressing the topic of socio-economic status, among other factors, showed that none of the socio-economic status variables appeared to be positively related to outmarriage within the community, and found lower-socioeconomically stable Asians sometimes utilized outmarriage to as a means to advance social status. A 2008 study by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King conducted on behalf of the examined whether crossing racial boundaries increased the risk of. Using the 2002 Cycle VI , the likelihood of divorce for interracial couples to that of same-race couples was compared.