Debating Same-Sex Marriage

Green, Adam Isaiah

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“…Evidence suggests that same-sex couples do receive both formal and informal benefits from being legally married. Qualitative research with same-sex couples shows that they report that marriage often brings greater acceptance from family members for their relationships (Green 2010(Green , 2013. Furthermore, individuals in same-sex relationships believe that their marriages show to their families, friends, and the larger community that they are in relationships that are just as committed as female-male marriages (Green 2013;Kimport 2013;Kosbie 2013).…”

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“…Qualitative research with same-sex couples shows that they report that marriage often brings greater acceptance from family members for their relationships (Green 2010(Green , 2013. Furthermore, individuals in same-sex relationships believe that their marriages show to their families, friends, and the larger community that they are in relationships that are just as committed as female-male marriages (Green 2013;Kimport 2013;Kosbie 2013). Experimental research by Doan et al (2014Doan et al ( , 2015, however, suggests that although marriage may bring full access to the formal privileges of marriage, it does not necessarily extend to support for informal rights for same-sex couples.…”

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“… 1 Although most research suggests that characterizing the same-sex marriage debate as simply supportive or unsupportive misses important variation in both attitudes and behaviors of same-sex couples (e.g., Bartholomay 2017; Bosley-Smith and Reczek 2018; Green 2013; Heath 2013), for our purposes here, we simply highlight that aspect of the debate that focuses on the “normalization” of same-sex couples and the social consequences of normalization. …”

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Same‐Sex Marriage in the U nited S tates

Sin

Risman

2016

Encyclopedia of Family Studies

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Same‐sex marriage refers to the legal recognition of the union between two person of the same sex whereby rights, responsibilities, and privileges accorded to married heterosexual couples are extended to their same‐sex counterparts. As of 2015 same‐sex marriage can be found in 35 states and DC, and is legalized in 17 countries across the world. This growing momentum toward marriage equality prompted questions regarding the impact same‐sex marriage has on families in particular, and on society in general. The uneven pace of legalizing same‐sex marriage has negative consequences on same‐sex families with young children, subjecting them to undue financial and emotional burden. Although some studies have attempted to show differences between children raised by opposite‐ and those raised by same‐sex parents, an overwhelming number of interdisciplinary social science research shows otherwise. Children of same‐sex parents fare just as well as their similarly situated opposite‐sex counterparts.

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Conventional and Cutting-Edge: Definitions of Family in LGBT Communities

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Ortyl

2018

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Debating Same-Sex Marriage

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Conformity to Heterosexual Engagement Proposal Scripts: Do Same-Sex Couples Benefit?

Conformity to Heterosexual Engagement Proposal Scripts: Do Same-Sex Couples Benefit?

Same‐Sex Marriage in the U nited S tates

Conventional and Cutting-Edge: Definitions of Family in LGBT Communities

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