In your opinion will the divorce rate for gay/lesbian couples be?

A: the same as for straight couples (1st time marriages average 50% success/divorce)


B: higher


C: lower





Are there stats that prove what it is from say Canada that allow gay/lesbian marriages? If the divorce rate would be higher how will this effect a already weak economy.In your opinion will the divorce rate for gay/lesbian couples be?
because of the lack of respect for GOD the rate will be much higher..In your opinion will the divorce rate for gay/lesbian couples be?
I would say that it is possible for the rate to be higher, because it is something that wasnt allowed before. Some couples may rush into it even though they arent ready for it, and they dont realize it till later on. But i think after they have been allowed to marry for a while it will be just as the same as straight rates
I would say lower. Personally, I that other gay/lesbian couples want to get married simply because they LOVE each other. At least that's my only reason to get married of course.





Straight people might get married for love also, but they also do it for money, for the kids, other stupid reasons like that. I'm not saying that gay/lesbian couples wouldn't do it for those reasons, but I think they are unlikely.





Thank god I live in California :]
idk probly the same as stright people but i dought it i think it will be less because there happy they finley can get marriend so i think they would take it more serosly then strights because they been waiting for a long time unlike strights they just jump up and get married when some of them don't even like the person
It'll be about the same I suppose. But people will blow that out of proportion, as ';proof'; that marriage is between a man and a woman. D:
i'd say higher because of self esteem stress, social embaresment or turning straight
i would say they would be about the same.
Hard to say! I'd guess the same or maybe lower?
There are no significant statistics yet from anywhere -- statistical analysis with any scholarly validity requires data from at least 25 years for this type of study -- preferably 50.





That said -- my guess is that for the first 50 years or so it will be lower -- and then it will be the same.





This guess is based on the following:





a. Only those couples that are completely out publicly will dare try for marriage.


b. Only about 4% of the population are out openly as gay and lesbian -- among males however, for example, the Columbia Presbyterian Study (';Discordance between Sexual Behavior and Self-Reported Sexual Identity';; Annals of Internal Medicine; September 2006) over 12% of males preferred sex exclusively with other males -- but over 8% of the total -- both preferred sex exclusively with other males AND declared themselves to be straight. Those men are sneaking out for sex with the preferred gender while pretending very hard to be straight -- they are not even in the pool that MIGHT get married - only the 4% out could be


c. Most of the couples getting married in the initial years are those that have been together for decades already (my partner and I are not getting married, but we have been together for nearly 17 years now -- if we were going to fight and break up, it would have happened already).


d. The type of gay couples that are out (and thus may marry) tend to be well educated, solidly employed, and (as individuals) very stable. Each of those things tend to reduce the likelihood of divorce. Education leads to talking about differences, not fighting; good employment/income leads to fewer monetary worries (the biggest cause of marital collapse) and stability leads to less likelihood of random affairs or someone stomping off and having a breakdown and then leaving.





So, in the short run, I think gay couples (as they are seen) will appear to be more stable. I know that even without marriage, we have outlasted any of our straight friends' marriages. That is worth thinking about -- and we are happy with each other, don't fight, and love each other very much.





As for the rather odd closing question -- I suspect that the question was actually asked you by a teacher, and I can't imagine what s/he is talking about.... there would be NO appreciable effect on the economy. The equivalent question would be asking what effect an increase among Jewish couples divorcing would have. There simply aren't enough of our couples (or Jewish couples) to have a significant impact if we split, let us say, at a 55% rate instead of a 50% rate.





I would however not expect an honest long term assessment of what rate gays will divorce at until gay marriage is so normal that the shy timid ones who now have straight marriages and pretend to love their wives, are at a point where they dare be themselves from a young age. Only then will you or anyone else (including your teacher) be able to see what the broad spectrum of the gay community produces in terms of divorce -- and my guess is, it will be the same split that you see in straight marriages.





Under it all, people are people.





Regards,





Hermes