ABSTRACT
One of the most striking social trends in Britain is the increasing number of ‘interracial’ marriages and cohabitations and people of mixed parentage. Despite this trend, ‘mixed marriages’ are still unusual in Britain. They currently make up just over 1 per cent of all marriages (Berrington, 1996; Owen, 2001). This small overall percentage is not surprising since more than 94 per cent of the British population is white. However, an increasing number of the cohabiting relationships of people of Caribbean origin are with white British people (see Chapter 2).
