The demographics of same-sex „marriages“ in Norway and Sweden

Abstract

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Couple Longevity in the Era of Same‐Sex Marriage in the United States

“…Controlling for marriage and coresidence, lesbian couples have significantly less stability than heterosexual couples or gay male couples (see Table 2). Other studies of same-sex couple longevity have reported a greater break-up rate of lesbian couples as compared to gay male couples (Andersson et al, 2006;Blumstein & Schwartz, 1983;Ross et al, 2011), but the reasons for the gender gap in same-sex couple longevity are not clear.…”

“…At least four studies have used populationbased samples to analyze same-sex couple longevity in Europe. Andersson, Noack, Seierstad, and Weedon-Fekjaer (2006) found that gay male couples with registered partnerships in the 1990s in Sweden had a risk of breakup similar to heterosexual married couples, whereas lesbian couples with registered partnerships had rates of breakup two to three times higher than the break-up rate of heterosexual married couples. Kalmijn, Loeve, and Manting (2007) found that same-sex cohabiting couples had odds of breakup three times higher than heterosexual cohabiting couples and 11 times higher than heterosexual married couples.…”

Symptoms of anxiety and depression in lesbian couples treated with donated sperm: a descriptive study

“…In a study of the demographics of same-sex marriage in Norway and Sweden, it was stated that patterns in divorce risks are rather similar in same-sex and opposite-sex marriages, but divorce risk levels are considerably higher in same-sex marriages. 43 Further studies are essential to understand relationship breakup in lesbian couples.…”

Friendly neighbours! The role of community‐level drivers in the territorial distribution of same‐sex couples in Italy

“…According to official ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) residence data, on 1 January 2018, 13,256 Italians were living in same-sex partnerships. 3 The numbers are very small (4.64 people in same-sex partnership per 10,000 married people), but seem to be in line with the numbers observed in Northern Europe immediately after the passage of similar bills 4 (Andersson, Noack, Seierstad, & Weedon-Fekjaer, 2006). As is to be expected, same-sex couples have predominantly settled in Northern Italy and in larger urban areas.…”