Cross-cultural marriages
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Married foreigners On 1 January 1999 the Netherlands was home to 453 thousand married couples with at least one partner born in a foreign country (table 1). Less than half of these couples consist of partners who were both born in a foreign country. 108 thousand foreign-born males have a Dutch-born wife and 133 thousand foreign-born females have a Dutch-born husband. Since 1992 the number of these mixed couples has increased by 5 percent, against a decrease of 1 percent for Dutch-born married couples. The largest increase although has taken place in the case of married couples of which both husband and wife are foreign-born, about 20%.
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