Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

272 Aspects of Integration
Figure 77: Acceptance of an interreligious marriage for own children
among interviewees with migrant background (in percent)
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
81,6 81,9
66,0
75,6
With son Without son With daughter Without daughter
Acceptance of an interreligious
marriage for sons
Acceptance of an interreligious
marriage for daughters
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 5,568
While these findings reveal greater reserve towards interreligious
partnerships when the focus is on female children,
it remains unclear whether a different standard is actually applied
to daughters than to sons or whether pronounced overlaps
exist in the decision-making process regarding the interreligious
openness of the interviewees, irrespective of whether
sons or daughters are concerned.
An assessment of whether persons would reach the same
decision for daughters and sons respectively or whether they
would apply different standards to the two genders with regard
to a partnership with a person belonging to a different faith produces
the following findings.
91 per cent of those who have neither a daughter nor a
son would reach the same decision for sons and daughters. The