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DIVORCE RAT SIAR AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL
* gay and lesbian divorce rate *
Divorce Rat Siar among Gay and Straight Coupl. Opponents of gay marriage have perdilly argued that gay marriage is fundamentally different and that gay upl are more likely to break up. Acrdg to a new study, though, gay marriage looks a lot like heterosexual marriage, wh gay upl spltg at rat siar to those of straight upl.
HOW MANY GAY MARRIAG END IN DIVORCE?
Divorce Rat among Gay and Straight Coupl. Bee many stat did not have legal gay marriage optns at the time of the study, rearchers looked at both legally married same-sex upl and same-sex upl who mataed long-term, marriage-like relatnships. There was also no substantive difference marriage breakup rat between lbian and gay upl.
Both straight and gay marriag had an annual breakup rate of ls than 3%. Forty-two percent of same-sex upl livg stat where gay marriage was legal were married when the survey began, pared to jt 28% of upl stat that did not legally regnize gay marriage. The study not that some prev rearch found that gay upl are more likely to break up, but that data did not e om a natnally reprentative sample.
For both gay and straight upl, the study says, factors such as mment, the history of the relatnship, and the length of the relatnship all play more signifint rol keepg upl together. Marriage break-up rat siar for gay, straight upl — study.