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Article snippet: More than two million marriages take place each year in the United States and, increasingly, they are uniting people of different races and ethnicities. Today, according to the Pew Research Center, one in six newlyweds in the United States is involved in a mixed marriage. That is a fivefold increase from 1967, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the decision that made interracial marriage legal across the nation. Last month, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Loving decision, The New York Times asked readers the question: Has being in an interracial relationship united or divided your family? Nearly 200 people — not only couples, but children of intermarried parents — responded. In those responses, several themes emerged. Mixed marriage in 2017 goes far beyond black and white, and might more aptly be called multicultural marriage. Children also tend to unite families; many couples wrote in to say that once they became parents, relations with their own parents improved. One interracial marriage tends to beget another; the children of intermarried couples tend to intermarry, if our readers are any guide. We heard tales of hope and disappointment, fear and hurt feelings, struggles for acceptance, but most of all, love. Here, in their own words, are a few of our readers’ stories, edited and condensed for clarity. The Times has many more stories here. Angela Martano, 29, and Terrel Stokes, 28 Where they met: At work at a nonp... Link to the full article to read more