New study offers first demographic picture of gay spouses | News Story on 365gay.com

The Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law issued a report today analyzing newly released data from the US Census Bureau.A The study examines data from the 2008 American Community Survey .

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Interesting statistics. The State of Utah (mormonland) ranks 4th in the nation in number of same-sex spousal couples per 1,000 population.

If that doesn't give the chief propheteer a severe case of the vapors, nothing will.

[save the gay baby whales]

* Same-sex spouses were twice as likely to be raising children–more than 31% of spouses are raising children as opposed to 17% of unmarried partners.

* Same-sex unmarried partners do differ in many ways from their different-sex unmarried counterparts. They are older, more educated, wealthier, more likely to own a home, more likely to be employed, and less likely to be raising children.

this screams Queen bee syndrome trends in corporate america
“While nearly 150,000 same-sex couples consider themselves to be spouses, we estimate that 32,000 same-sex couples were legally married in the United States by the end of 2008,” said Gary J. Gates, the Williams Distinguished Scholar and the study’s author. Some couples may have had religious ceremonies or commitment ceremonies, others may be in civil unions or registered domestic partnerships, and some may simply believe themselves to have a marriage-like relationship regardless of their legal relationship status.
many talking points
insurance companies began covering domestic partners several year back
immigration and marriage
implication that marriage ages may be lowered
divorce and child rights
mens rights and second marriages
many other domestic civil laws