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10 Interesting Facts About Same Sex Marriage and Divorce
Eight years after same-sex marriage was written into law, we’re looking at these major life events by the numbers.
1. Lgbtq+ marriages are on the rise.
This is the eighth year since same-sex marriages have been possible; around one in 35 marriages are now among lgbtq+ couples. Just nervous of 7,000 lgbtq+ couples tied the knot in 2018, according to the Office of National Statistics. Covid stalled the wedding industry, with fewer couples saying ‘I do’ in 2020 than in previous years. But pandemic aside, the overall trend is up.
2. Civil partnerships have fallen out of favour.
The introduction of civil partnerships in December 2005 saw enormous numbers of lgbtq+ couples rushing to become civil partners, stabilising at around 6,000 civil partnerships a year in the late 2000s. Today, there are just over 1,000 civil partnerships a year, as marriage is now the preferred union for same-sex couples.
3. Men and older couples are more likely to establish a civil partnership.
The couples most likely to choose to form a civil partnership are male or over 50. Nearly two-thirds of all civil partnerships formed in 2018 were bet
Cansu fought hard for the right to marry her wife. The response to their divorce was harsh
Cansu Col fought hard for marriage equality.
She attended protests and threw power behind "actively supporting" the campaign, right up until homosexual marriage became legal in December 2017.
In 2019 she married another woman but in 2021 they divorced.
She describes herself as 'the' homosexual Turkish migrant in Sydney people search advice from.
But she said when she desperately needed help and advice, it was hard to find and from some corners of the Turkish collective she received the opposite.
"I got bullied," she told the Feed.
"They were negative when I got married and then they were more negative when I got divorced.
"Being Turkish, coming from a Muslim society, it's not really acceptable to get married with a woman."
After her divorce, people questioned her self and asked her if she would marry a man.
"They were saying, 'you got what you wanted, so what do you want?'"
They challenged her on why she fought for marriage equality in the first place.
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Gay divorce less likely than straight divorce?
Recent research shows that gay marriages are less likely to finish in divorce than linear ones.
Gay couples have been able to enter into Civil Partnerships for some years now, although technically this is not defined as marriage, even through the legal differences between them are minuscule. The government has indicated that it is likely to amend the law so that gay people will be able to unite in a civil ceremony (and may even allow vertical couples to have Civil Partnerships).
The Office for National Statistics has announced that dissolutions of civil partnerships happen at a bring down rate than straight divorces. (Civil Partnerships end in Dissolution, rather than divorce, but again, there is virtually no difference between the two things). So what conclusions can we draw from this?
Well, we could perhaps conclude that maybe gay couples are better at making relationships work than straight people. Do a couple of gay men, for example, have more in ordinary than a straight husband and wife?
Perhaps, but I doubt that is the reason behind the noticeable success of Civil Partnerships. They have only been possible for a several years and it
Marriage for All, Divorce for All
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By Alisa Peskin-Shepherd
Since same-sex marriage first became legal in Massachusetts in 2004, I’ve been watching to see if marriage trends and divorce trends mirror what we see in the heterosexual world. Because just as anyone can fall in love, anyone can fall out of treasure, too.
Not all marriages are meant to last forever!
Since 2015, queer couples have been allowed to legally marry in all 50 states, but the effort began way back in the 1970s, as part of the Civil Rights movement to extend the rights of a democratic nation to all of its citizens. I believe strongly that all couples who want to commit should be allowed to perform so.
A 2011 study initially reported that same-sex couples divorced at a slightly lower rate than their opposite-sex couple counterparts. According to a 2021 article by Pride Legal, lesbian marriage has a high divorce rate. The article cites a 16% divorce rate for gay marriages compared with a 34% divorce rate for lesbian couples – against a 19% divorce rate for heterosexual couples.
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(Check out this 2013 New York Magazine article about same-s