Why not intermarry? Statistical evidence indicates that increasing numbers of young people in the United States cannot find an answer to this question. Regarding interfaith marriages, widely quoted figures from the United States Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey of March, 1957, show that in a study of 35,000 households, 7.2 per cent of Jews, 8.6 per cent of Protestants, and 21.6 per cent of Catholics have marital partners of a different faith.1 However, these figures do not ac curately represent the current rate of interfaith marriage. As pointed out by Sklare,2 these figures are a cumulative report of the ratio of inter faith to same-faith marriage for all couples alive in March, 1957?re gardless of when they were married. In order to get a more accurate picture of the rate of interfaith marriage today, we must consult other studies. These studies suggest that the cumulative report of the Census Bureau is somewhat conservative.