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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]
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Crude divorce rates measure the number of divorces per 1,000 people. Refined divorce rates measure the number of divorces per 1,000 married women. While the crude divorce rate is more common, many ...
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
This is divorces per 1,000 population per year. [1] For example, if a city has 10,000 people living in it, and 30 couples divorce in one year, then the crude divorce rate for that year is 3 divorces per 1,000 residents.
Amity Pierce Buxton, a long-time advocate for straight partners in mixed-orientation marriages and an early researcher in this area, noted that "peers provide the most support, while therapists are often unfamiliar with sexual orientation, mixed orientation couples, or societal attitudes that impact mixed orientation families." [21]
Over the past decade, both marriage and divorce rates nationally declined — but figures varied widely between states. Read The Marriage and Divorce Rate in Every State from Money Talks News.
The study by researcher Darren Spedale found that 15 years after Denmark had granted same-sex couples the rights of marriage, rates of opposite-sex marriage in those countries had gone up, and rates of opposite-sex divorce had gone down – contradicting the concept that same-sex marriages would have a negative effect on opposite-sex marriages ...