EA, Microsoft, Zynga, again voice opposition to Defense of Marriage Act

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Zappykins said:

Kasz216 said:

Zappykins said:

BaldrSkies said:

NiKKoM said:
Geez you americans are still at this? Its been 12 years since same sex mariage in the netherlands became legal.. Heck i cant even remember at how many gay weddings i have been.. Some are already divorced!

Legalize gay marriage so studies can be conducted on the gay divorce rate!

But in all seriousness people need to take their personal religion out of politics.

The have and the ration divorce is lowest for man-woman marriages where same sex marriage is legal. (Masscults being the old US state with Same Sex Marriage, has the lowest divorce rate.

Man-Man marriage have, after the same amount of time, half the divorce rate for Man-Woman marriages.

Woman-Woman marriages have about the same divorce rate of Man-Woman marriages.  But statistics show that Woman-Woman couples raise the most achieving children, and the lowest molestation rate of all couples.

I'm for gay marriage but my inner statician is screaming at me right now.

It would be way to early to conduct that kind of study in any US state.  You'd need a Europeon state where gay marriage has been around a couple decades.

Reason being, most divorces happen early on in a wedding.

So you look at gay couples right.  Just because they haven't been married, doesn't mean they haven't been living togther.  My cousin for example has been living with his partner for I don't even know, might of been longer then I could remember.

While he would of got married likely decades ago, he couldn't, and when the law passes.  He will.    Meanwhile someone who WOULD of got divorced decades ago never got married in the first place.   So essentially you've got decades worth of "Good marriages" messing up the marriage rate.

Honestly, half the divorce rate seems bad in regards to such numbers since it's an "Order of Magnitude" type thing as far as years go, however there may be a bunch of people getting married just because they're so excited they could and rushing marriages sooner.

 

That is to say if we're talking about percentage of marriages that  divorce within the first year.... and we assume gay and straight couples are the same and we just look at 2 years.   Straight people married for two yerars lets say have a 50% divorce rate.

For gay people, if gay marriage had been outlawed two years ago, and made legal again one year ago... (and wedding rates stayed the same.)  Since that first group who was going to get married is no longer around.   Gay Divorce rate should be 33%.   Just on the basis of a one year difference.

So unless controlled for intellegenetly you'd expect there to be HUGE gaps just based on the above phenomom.

To be honest i'd expect gay marriage divorce rates to end up HIGHER all thigns adjusted.  Not because of anything inherent to gay marriage, but due to all the extra stress put on same sex couples by a general homophobic culture.

Let me clarify, the studies I am referring to regarding are studying divorce rate of all couples leagally married at that marriage time to now.  So for something like 8 years in The Netherlands, and 5 in Massachusetts, as the last revision of the study was a year or two ago.  But they were looking at every year as you described.  But the numbers showed up within, the first year, and haven’t deviated significantly.

The theory is that if a male-male wants to get married, they really want to stay married.  But I honestly don’t know the reason for their lower than average divorce rate.

Yes, I could see how one would think that the divorce rate for a same sex couple would be higher, but sastically it is not the case.  

Here is another big of odd trivia – the rate of domestic assault of woman-woman couples is virtually the same man-woman according to USA police reports.

 

Right, like I said... that's the problem though.  Right now you have a lot of pent up "good marriage" demand.  So you would expect divorce rates to naturally be lower.    Really "accurate" Numbers wont be gotten for a good 15-20 years... and honestly, by then hopefully they'll be the same only because people will be more accepting of such relationships.

As for Woman/Woman marriages i'm not that surprised.   Domestic violence committed by women is lower, but violence by women is on the rise.  Add in the added stress of homophobia, the added stress of finding a new mate with like 1/10th the dating pool, greater feelings of isolation vs society...