Essays on Interracial Marriage

Marriage is a milestone in every person’s life. Everybody wants their marriage to be protected by the law and have legal rights to marry a person they love. Spouses want to enjoy all benefits of the marriage, which would allow them to get social security, raise children and share possession. To empower the commitment and protect their families, people should be given a civil right of marriage. Nowadays, it is officially stated that marriage is a right protected by the Constitution. However, there were restrictions for gay people, and the question about legalizing gay marriage is still a ...

Abstract

Notably, interracial couples and their families have faced various challenges including rejection and being stereotyped. These challenges have resulted in increased trauma and developmental delays among interracial people. The most common misperception about interracial couples is that one partner is black while the other one is white. The rate at which interracial marriages are growing in the US has increased steadily. Considering that the United States legalized interracial marriages, a high growth rate in interracial marriage is a significant move. The demand for interracial counseling is expected to rise as the number of multicultural couples increase. Education of counselors ...

Same Sex Marriage: A Human Rights Issue

Today, a majority of Americans live in a state where same-sex couples can legally marry. These marriages are recognized by the federal government and granted by 35 states. However, the debate on same-sex marriages rages on. The American reluctance to embrace same-sex marriages is seen as odd by people from other industrialized countries and is a historical anomaly as well. Same-sex unions have been sanctioned by cultures and societies from the ancient Greeks to twentieth-century Native Americans. In A History of Same Sex Marriage (1993), William Eskridge Jr. dissects the American obsession with heterosexual exclusivity of marriage. According to Eskridge, twentieth-century Americans “ ...

Abstract

This paper presents a review of Legalizing Gay Marriage, by Michael Mello. Key ideas of this book include the background behind the Baker v. Vermont case that challenged the constitutionality of refusing to allow same-sex marriages under the Vermont constitution, the legislative response to that decision, and an examination of civil unions as a compromise position. The applicability of this book is discussed as a historical snapshot of a momentous time in the gay rights movement, as a writing supporting the fundamentality of the marriage right, and as a possible lesson in the interaction of the judiciary and the legislature that would be useful in ...

Introduction

Today, interracial marriage is one of the most commonly debated topics in the field of sociology and anthropology today. Not a lot of people get to understand what interracial marriage really is or what it really is all about, or what it even means. Basically, interracial marriage is a process or a phenomenon that occurs when two people, who came from two differing ethnic or racial groups, become bound by law, culture, and religion. In the simplest terms, interracial marriage occurs when two people who both came from a different culture marry and converge to form a single unit of society, or what is ...

Barbara Frankel from Diversity Inc wrote on her blog that “The California appeals court decision striking down Proposition 8 - the ban on the same-sex marriage - is an important legal and moral victory for marriage-equality supporters including several corporations.” Her comments referred to the decision of the CA 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on “Hollingsworth versus Perry” which declared Proposition 8 illegal sending the lawsuit on its way to the California Supreme Court and then all the way the US Supreme Court. Oral arguments for the case were presented at the US Supreme Court two days during the ...