And as Johnson and Loscocco note,
married black
couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital
happiness and satisfaction
than white spouses; they disagree more
than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from marriage
than white women and even black men do.
A 2011 review of the impact of
happiness on major life events found that
couples who got
married generally felt less happy and less satisfied over time
than couples who had not.