The Stability of Same‐Sex Cohabitation, Different‐Sex Cohabitation, and Marriage

Lau, Charles

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01000.x

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“…Respondent age, race-ethnicity, relationship duration, occupation, and education level are listed in Table 1; basic demographics are consistent with current data on U.S. samesex couples (Gates & Ost, 2004;Lau, 2012; although see Gates & Newport, 2012). Pseudonyms were given to all respondents to protect anonymity.…”

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The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

Reczek

2014

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences an

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Reczek, C. (2014). The intergenerational relationships of gay men and lesbian women. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69(6), 909-919, doi:10.1093 Objectives. Despite the demonstrated importance of intergenerational ties across the life course, few studies examine relationships between gay men and lesbians and their later life parents and parents-in-law. The present study examines how midlife to later life gay men and lesbians in intimate partnerships conceptualize these intergenerational ties.Method. Qualitative analysis of 50 in-depth interviews collected with midlife to later life gay men and lesbians (ages 40-72) in long-term intimate partnerships.Results. Findings reveal 4 central ways respondents describe supportive parent-child and parent-child in-law relationships: integration, inclusion through language, social support, and affirmations. Findings reveal 3 central ways individuals distinguish strained parent-child and parent-child in-law relationships: rejection in everyday life, traumatic events, and the threat of being usurped. Findings further articulate how intergenerational ambivalence is distinguished through descriptions of a parent as simultaneously supportive (via subthemes of solidarity) and rejecting (via subthemes of strain).Discussion. Findings from this study provide empirical evidence of how support, strain, and ambivalence in intergenerational ties are identified and experienced by gay men and lesbian women. This study reveals a new lens to view relationships between midlife to later life adults and their aging parents and parents-in-law and further identifies linkages between solidarity-conflict and ambivalence paradigms.

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The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

Reczek

2014

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“…Evidence is mixed, however, as to whether same-sex couples exhibit similar levels of relationship stability when compared with different-sex married couple families (Kurdek, 2004(Kurdek, , 2006Lau, 2012;Manning, Brown, & Stykes, 2016), and no studies to date have examined family stability patterns among same-sex couples with children. Future efforts to collect the kind of data to fully explore these questions are imperative.…”

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Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

Cenegy

Denney

Kimbro

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same‐sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011–2012) to identify children in different‐sex married and cohabiting families, never and previously married single‐parent families, and same‐sex couple families. Considering important characteristics such as the child's race or ethnicity and adoption status, household socioeconomic standing, family stability, and parent health, we examine the relationship between family type and parent‐rated overall child health. The results suggest that poorer health among children in same‐sex couple as well as different‐sex cohabiting couple and single‐parent families appears to be largely the product of demographic and socioeconomic differences rather than exposure to nontraditional family forms.

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“…Dette er kjennetegn som vanligvis inngår i skilsmissestudier (se Lyngstad og Jalovaara (2010) for en gjennomgang av nyere internasjonale studier av skilsmisse), og kjennetegn som også har vist seg å vaere av betydning for samlivsbrudd blant lesbiske og homofile (Andersson mfl. 2006;Kalmijn, Loeve og Manting 2007;Lau 2012). UtdanThis article is downloaded from www.idunn.no.…”

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“…Juridisk er det ingen forskjell på å oppløse et likekjønnet eller ulikekjønnet ekteskap. Som en forklaring på den høyere bruddrisikoen blant likekjønnede par, har det vaert hevdet at par som lever i mindre aksepterte former for samliv, i en bruddsituasjon kan tenkes å oppleve mindre forventninger og støtte fra omgivelsene til å fortsette samlivet (Lau 2012).…”

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Fra registrert partnerskap til ny ekteskapslov: - Ekteskap og skilsmisse blant likekjønnede par 1993–2011

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Seierstad²,

Noack³

2016

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Seniorrådgiver, Seksjon for metoder, Statistisk sentralbyrå, sei@ssb.no Turid NoackFrittstående forsker, dr.philos., turid.noack@gmail.com I denne artikkelen bruker vi registerdata over alle likekjønnede par som formaliserte samlivene sine i perioden 1993 til og med 2010 og spør: hvilke par er mest ustabile og hvilke registrerte partnere har valgt å konvertere til ekteskap? Resultatene bekrefter at likekjønnede par fortsatt er mindre stabile enn ulikekjønnede og at kvinneparene har høyere skilsmisserisiko enn mannlige par. Ett av tre registrerte partnerskap var blitt omgjort til ekteskap etter innføringen av den nye ekteskapsloven i 2009. En høyere andel kvinnepar (44 %) hadde konvertert til ekteskap enn mannspar (28 %). Denne kjønnsforskjellen forsvant i multivariate analyser der det samtidig ble kontrollert for parenes øvrige kjennetegn. Stikkord:Likekjønnede par, registrerte partnere, likekjønnede ekteskap, skilsmisse, registerdata From Registered Partnerships to Same-Sex Marriages: Marriage and Divorce among Norwegian Same-Sex Couples 1993-2011Using register data on all same-sex couples who formalized their unions from 1993 through 2010, the current study investigates the union dynamics of these couples. More precisely, we assess the stability of these unions and conversions from registered partnerships to same-sex marriages following the new marriage legislation in 2009. Results confirmed that same-sex couples had a higher divorce risk than opposite-sex couples, and that female couples were significantly less stable than their male counterparts. By 2011, one in three intact registered partnerships entered between 1993 and 2008 had been converted to marriages. The conversion rate was higher among women (44 %) than men (28 %). However, controlling for whether or not both partners were Norwegian citizens reduced this gender gap.

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The Stability of Same‐Sex Cohabitation, Different‐Sex Cohabitation, and Marriage

Cited by 104 publications

References 45 publications

The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

The Intergenerational Relationships of Gay Men and Lesbian Women

Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

Fra registrert partnerskap til ny ekteskapslov: - Ekteskap og skilsmisse blant likekjønnede par 1993–2011

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