Lesbian, Gay, and straight divorce rates compared. Neglect of Lesbian & Gay concerns.
Gay divorce rates are low, Lesbians much higher than Gays or straights.
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Some statistical cautions
I am seeing summary reports mostly, or reviews by others. There could be some causes that systematically skew the data.
For example, it might be that most of the married Gays are Gay couples who had been together already for a long time and got married when it became legal to do so whereas Lesbians getting married are from a new group of young people who haven’t been together a long time.
I don’t see break downs by age, length of time they were married, etc.
What I found online.
Mediate, July 6, 2022, “LGBTQ Couples And Divorce Trends.”
There is a problem with this report in that it isn’t a percapita comparison of divorces to marriages. If Lesbians got married ten times as often, this information would indicate that they were less likely to get divorces.
A research study in the UK revealed that the likelihood of lesbian couples ending their marriages was higher in comparison to gay male marriages. Researchers said that out of the total number of divorce petitions filed by same-sex couples in 2019, nearly 75 percent involved lesbian couples. This skewed ratio of lesbian divorce versus gay male divorce has remained more or less consistent since 2016.
https://mediate.com/lgbtq-couples-and-divorce-trends/
Metroweekly, Dec. 1, 2020, “Lesbians much more likely to divorce than gay men, according to data.”
This is the “research” indicated by the Mediate article. Much the same. Big headline, poor understanding of statistics.
This article has a link to Pink News which also seems to have little understanding of statistics or undering a datapoint.
Being statistically illiterate doesn’t keep Pink News from criticizing Lesbians. With friends like this, you don’t need enemies.
Why are lesbians more likely to get divorced?
There is no clear statistical explanation for why divorce rates among lesbians and gay men diverge so significantly, though female couples are more likely to get married at younger ages.
Stonewall co-founder Lisa Power previously told The Economist that the number of lesbian couples getting divorced might have something to do with the tendency to move very fast and quickly invest in a relationship, otherwise known as U-hauling.
Power added: “We all used to move in with each other at the drop of a hat.”
Looking at statistics for opposite-sex couples could also provide an explanation, as overall women are much more likely to instigate divorce proceedings than men, with two thirds initiated by women.
Ayesha Vardag, president of divorce firm Vardags, also told The Economist that she believes this might be because women can be less tolerant of infidelity.
Vardag added that, whether gay or lesbian, straight or queer, the problems she sees that lead to divorce among her clients are the same.
She said: “It’s distress about adultery or domestic violence, not being listened to, the sense of one party slogging away and the other one taking it easy. All the same things crop up.”
All the above articles derive from this research. Some quotes from the report.
So there is some type of percapita info and it doesn’t look good for Lesbians.
The divorce rate among opposite-sex couples in 2019 increased to 8.9 divorces per 1,000 married men and women aged 16 years and over from 7.5 in 2018; this increase will have been impacted by the additional processing of casework in 2018.
There were 822 divorces among same-sex couples in 2019, nearly twice the number in 2018 (428 divorces); of these, nearly three-quarters (72%) were between female couples.
Unreasonable behaviour was the most common reason for opposite-sex couples divorcing in 2019 with 49% of wives and 35% of husbands petitioning on these grounds; it was also the most common reason for same-sex couples divorcing, accounting for 63% of divorces among women and 70% among men.
This is the comparison data.
“While we see that 56% of same-sex marriages were among females, nearly three-quarters of same-sex divorces in 2019 were to female couples. Unreasonable behaviour, which includes adultery, was the most common ground for divorce among same-sex couples this year as almost two-thirds of couples divorced for this reason.”
(.56)(X) = (.75) and (.44)(Y) = (.25) Where X is a divorce rate for Lesbian marriages and Y is a divorce rate for Gay marriages.
The relative rate can be calculated by this.
[(.56)(X)]/[.44](Y)] = (.75)/(.25) = 3
[(.56)/(.44)] [(X)/(Y)] = 3
(X)/(Y) = 3 X (.44)/(.56) = 2.36. So Lesbians are divorcing at a little more than twice Gay men. Again, there is no comparison of the age groups, time married, etc.
There is information the number of divorces, but we have no idea what the relationship is to the number of Lesbians and Gays being marriage. The idea seems that we can plot uninformative data.
This is a review of some American data.
This summary lumps Lesbians and Gays together as same-sex marriages. Common sense is that you don’t publish things when you lack data to make it informative, but evidently these reports get written.
Divorce Rates of Same-Sex Marriages
Census.gov's analysis of same-sex couple households in 2019 shows that 53.4% were female married couples, compared to 46.6% male married couples
The divorce rate for same-sex couples has risen from 1.1 per 1,000 people since 2015, when these marriages became legal nationwide. In 2017, about 5% to 6% were divorced, and 2.1% were separated.
Same-sex couples are 50% more likely to get divorced than different-sex couples.
Studies also found that lesbian couples are more likely to divorce if they have children. For example, 12.3% of two-female couples break up within the first 5 years of marriage compared to 2% of gay spouses.
https://divorce.com/blog/divorce-statistics/
What I found on Wikipedia.
There are studies from the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.
There are report of higher total number of Lesbian divorces, but there isn’t per capita rates or comparisons.
The only case where you have some comparison was for Norway.
So when the time of being married is comparable, the rate of divorce for Lesbians is only roughly 35% higher than Gay men. (See first paragraph.) Paragraph 4 below says Lesbian divorce rate is 10% higher than for Gay men.
A 2022 study of Norway, using data up to 2018, found that divorce rates 20 years post-marriage were 5% lower for male-male marriages compared to male-female marriages and were 29% higher for female-female marriages vs female-male marriages.[16]
Another study on short-term same-sex registered partnerships in Norway and Sweden found that divorce rates were higher for same-sex couples than opposite-sex marriages,[17] and that unions of lesbians are considerably less stable than unions of gay men.[18]
In the above study, lesbians' divorce risks were 10% higher than for gay men (Table 4).
A study of marriage dissolution rates in Sweden spanning the years 1995–2012 found that 30% of both male same-sex marriages and heterosexual marriages ended in divorce, whereas the separation rate for female same-sex marriages was 40% (their Figure 7a).[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_of_same-sex_couples
In the end I couldn’t find any good indepth useful analysis of divorce rates.
Government neglect of Lesbian and Gay concerns.
A major if not the most important concern of most Gays and Lesbians is to have a relationship. A good analysis of divorce rate information would be valuable to the Lesbian and Gay communities to avoid divorce. Having a good detailed analysis of divorce rates for Gays and Lesbians would be very valuable. Yet we see instead these lacking efforts.
Despite the importance to Lesbians and Gays we don’t see the LGBTQXYZ+ establishment and media raising the issue about the lack of good studies of Lesbian and Gay divorce rates. What are the Stonewall Dems doing, do they even recognize this as an issue?
It is something we should demand and expect. I am sure there might be excuses, but if there is a will there is a way.
