On Third Culture Kids

[ash]

I have this question for my characters. The kids have a father that's been involved in the military for seventeen years and during that time has married a woman that's outside his race and country.

Do you think it's possible for the wife and children to travel around different countries then return to the US in the 1960's and 50's or if they'll let them back in at all?

The answer would help me out.

[murderofcrows]

travel, i'm not sure...if they're married, they might let them in, but if he was married before they probably wouldn't recognize the second marriage as legal...

[ash]

Thanks! That takes care the first part, now what about the rest?

[Keira]

According to Wikipedia (if you type in interracial marriage):

Social Trends in America and Strategic Approaches to the Negro Problem (1948), Gunnar Myrdal ranked the social areas where restrictions were imposed by Southern whites on the freedom of African-Americans through racial segregation from the least to the most important: jobs, courts and police, politics, basic public facilities, "social equality" including dancing, handshaking, and most important, marriage. This ranking scheme seems to explain the way in which the barriers against desegregation fell. Of less importance was the segregation in basic public facilities, which was abolished with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most tenacious form of legal segregation, the banning of interracial marriage, was not fully lifted until the last anti-miscegenation laws were struck down in 1967 by the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia.

But, to answer your question -- I think it depends on which country they were married in. As far as I'm aware, the United States has always recognize any union, so long as the interracial marriage did not occur within the US. I may be wrong about that, but I think that's how it worked.

[ash]

Thank you! To clear up things up, the father got married to a chinese woman in China around 1947.

Edit: Sorry, he was invovled in the military for Twenty years. I accidently put down his son's age.