Cross-cultural marriages

Carel HarmsenArticle published in the Monthly Bulletin of Population Statistics, December 1999. Voorburg/Heerlen, Statistics Netherlands. An earlier version of this article has been presented as a paper at the European Population Conference in the Hague, the Netherlands, 30 August - 3 September 1999.Abstract: Of about 13 percent of all married couples in the Netherlands at least one partner was born outside the Netherlands. The divorce rates of these couples are higher than those of couples in which both partners were born in the Netherlands.