Census study of gay married couples finds similarities to husband-and-wife couples

Chino has tried to divert a perfectly good question from Op-Ed with more of his usual off-topic spam, "Census study of gay married couples finds similarities to husband-and-wife couples". Well, here is my analysis in a seperate thread as to not divert the discussion there. To me is it interesting enough that these simularities are simply...

Married men and women average about 50 years old, and about four in 10 have kids living at home. The average couple pulls down a little over $90,000 a year and four in five own their home.

That demographic portrait doesn't just fit the nation's 56 million husband-and-wife couples. It also closely fits the roughly 340,000 households where two men call themselves husbands, or two women consider themselves wives.

Which may not very interesting at all if it is close to median for all heads of households in the census. But perhaps it isn't. And perhaps the burried headline here is the differences not the simularities.

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There other non-married (this report only shows non-married couples of the same gender) groups provided in the article to compare. For instance, their median age is about 10% or more less than the married groups, which is probably statistically significant.

The non-married are younger, in fact, from the ones who do not consider themselves married. This may even be more of an indication of how this uprising generation that we keep hearing will herald in the age of neutered marriage, simply don't care about marriage at all. Queue the old "Marriage is dying in Scandinavia" statistics, and a parallel between an adult oriented marriage ideal, and lack of interest in it, seems to go hand in hand.

It also seems to go hand in hand with not taking care of children. The heterosexual couples had significantly more children in the households than any other group. But did anyone notice the wage gap in that? Talk about the glass ceiling, the heterosexuals in that are getting lower wages then even the all female couples.