Sce Steve also c the kerfuffle over my own polilly rrect rearch (on immigratn), I might as well be the one to pot to some of the studi on same-sex divorce northern Europe, where gay unns have been legally regnized for much longer than here the U.S.
Contents:
- GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE
- WHY GAY COUPL DIVORCE MORE THAN STRAIGHT COUPL
- HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE
Regardls of sexual orientatn, is important for an dividual to unrstand the differenc between gay divorce and straight divorce. * divorce rate gay vs straight *
Tara Parker-Pope, a wrer at The New York Tim, says gay marriag “tend to be more egalarian, part bee same-sex upl don’t divi work along tradnal genr l” (Gay Marriage: Same, but Different – The New York Tim). Let take a look at the legali of gay divorce.
LGBT fay law has granted benefs to same-sex upl, but what happens durg a gay divorce? On the one hand, there are reports of higher levels of timacy and happs between gay upl, makg the divorce rate lower between same-sex upl than oppose-sex upl. Studi show although gay upl are generally “happier” they also have a high separatn rate.
The fdgs seem to nclu that the reason for higher breakups gay upl is due to external reasons such as fay prsure, children, fanc, and societal ndng. Acrdg to a UCLA report, almost 50, 000 of the 64, 000 gay upl the US got married.
WHY GAY COUPL DIVORCE MORE THAN STRAIGHT COUPL
* divorce rate gay vs straight *
The same study found that “first-wave gay marriag have proved more durable than straight on, that’s not expected to last.
HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
On the flipsi for gay marriag, data shows that the rate of divorce is 16% while heterosexual upl have a divorce rate of 19%. Many studi have been done to try to figure out what is g lbian upl to have a 34% divorce rate, and why gay marriag have a lower rate of divorce, but no answer has yet been found. The novelty of gay marriage has generated different laws each state, laws which are then terpreted dramatilly differently by state polici and mdsets that differ om borrle to state l.
Jse Green’s amazg piece, “From ‘I Do’ to ‘I’m Done’” trac several histori of gay upl, and not, “for gay upl, the promise of marriage is still so new and plete that the ia of matrimonial urts, equable settlements, and all the rt barely register. How do you procs the undog of a bond that until a moment ago history you were not allowed to form” (The Gay Divorce: From Marriage Equaly to Divorce …). For example, many gay people were livg together prr to gay marriage beg legalized.