Clients (and reporters) often ask me whether I predict that the gay divorce rate will be higher or lower than the straight divorce rate – which most folks believe is about 50%. My answer – a typil lawyer answer, you may say – is y and no. Here is why there is no clear answer…
Contents:
- GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON
- GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T LAST BEE….
- HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
- STUDY FDS GAY UNNS BRIEF
- MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET
GAY RELATNSHIPS CAN BE MORE STABLE THAN STRAIGHT ON
Gays n end up havg better and longer relatnships than heterosexuals * how long do gay relationships last *
Gays n have more stable relatnships than their straight unterparts.
The first group nsisted of gays and lbians.
One hundred gays and lbians were terviewed as well as one hundred heterosexuals. When asked about their love liv, gays were more likely to have long term relatnships.
GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T LAST BEE….
* how long do gay relationships last *
Though gays did state that they alt wh creased strs levels due to societal attus, they were more likely to report beg ntent and livg happy liv. Though they were more likely to have closer ti to parents, they reported spendg ls time wh fay than their gay unterparts.
After beg hont about their sexualy, homosexuals tend to ga a eedom which translat to happs and stabily. Clearly, gays and lbians n have better relatnships than their heterosexual unterparts.
HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
Acrdg to the data provid by the DMV, 2019 approximately 15% of gay marriag end divorce Heterosexuals have an 18% rate. * how long do gay relationships last *
The notn that all gays bounce om lover to lover is are many, many mted gays who want nothg more than to live their liv and be wh the love of their liv. Obvly, gays have ep, lovg relatnships and should be allowed to m to one another.
STUDY FDS GAY UNNS BRIEF
Approval of same-sex relatnships has been steadily risg sce 2009 (Pew Rearch Center, 2017), and the 2015 Supreme Court cisn endorsg same-sex marriage was a w for many lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals. This is nsistent wh prev fdgs: Gay and bisexual men are exposed to mory strsors that n -stabilize relatnships (Meyer, 2003; L, 2012).
MANY SUCCSFUL GAY MARRIAG SHARE AN OPEN SECRET
Rearch fund by the Natnal Instut of Health on the Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Populatns. Prejudice, social strs, and mental health lbian, gay, and bisexual populatns: Conceptual issu and rearch evince.
Changg Attus on Gay Marriage. Clients (and reporters) often ask me whether I predict that the gay divorce rate will be higher or lower than the straight divorce rate – which most folks believe is about 50%. Tryg to lculate the gay divorce rate is gog to be credibly difficult, if not impossible.
Gay marriage is allowed six stat and six foreign untri; six other stat upl n sign up for “all the rights and duti of marriage” but is lled domtic partnership or civil unn – so are those folks nsired married or not? And, given how new the formal legal relatnships are, and pecially light of the lack of feral regnn of state marriag, the “take-up” rate the gay and lbian muny has been far ls than the percentage of mted straight upl that marry. By ntrast, many the gay muny, and y, even the lbian muny, do not ame their relatnship marriage terms.