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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Divorce rates in homosexual couples... needs further study

Posted by Renee
Saw this factoid in a Yahoo feature...
If you're in a male same-sex marriage, it's 50 percent more likely to end in divorce than a heterosexual marriage. If you're in a female same-sex marriage, this figure soars to 167 percent
With gay marriage only being six years old, I'm surprised that even such a fact could be established. Female same-sex couples are more likely to marry then male same-sex couples, but I'm assuming the male same-sex couples that do indeed marry have a stronger established relationship and not doing it entirely out of political activism. These male homosexual relationships I would consider closer to 'bro-mance' then to marriage.
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  1. Source: Gunnar Andersson, "Divorce-Risk Patterns in Same-Sex Marriages in Norway and Sweden," Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, 2004)

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  2. Thx, Irmgard

    I think with these trends, we can find out what makes stable same-sex male and same-sex female relationships, and even non-sexual/non-kin relationships. We can see the needs between differing types of relationships really do differ and with public policy should be able to address differences, instead of placing everything under one term of 'marriage'.

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