This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship.
· the legal and social factors influencing cross-cultural marriages;
· the personality factors and positive or negative stereotypes of ‘otherness’ that influence spouse choice;
· notions of identity, gender and personhood, and definitions of difference, and how these are often tied up in emotive stereotypes;
· how all these factors affect the ongoing process of living together and the ability to cope;
· and how the children of such marriages come to terms with identity choices.
This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship.
· the legal and social factors influencing cross-cultural marriages;
· the personality factors and positive or negative stereotypes of ‘otherness’ that influence spouse choice;
· notions of identity, gender and personhood, and definitions of difference, and how these are often tied up in emotive stereotypes;
· how all these factors affect the ongoing process of living together and the ability to cope;
· and how the children of such marriages come to terms with identity choices.
This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship.
