TY - JOUR
T1 - Same-Sex Sexuality and the Risk of Divorce
T2 - Findings from Two National Studies
AU - London, Andrew S.
AU - Hoy, Aaron
N1 - Funding Information:
The 2011–2013 NSFG is a cross-sectional probability sample of 10,416 15–44-year-old women and men in the household (i.e., non-institutionalized) population of the United States. The NSFG is designed and funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics and several other programs within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Copen et al., ). Data were collected by means of in-person interviews. Separate questionnaires were used for women and men, although there is considerable overlap in core content.
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Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Despite symbolic linkages between heterosexuality and marriage, and a pervasive heteronormative ideology of romantic love, little population-representative research examines whether same-sex sexuality–desire/attraction, behavior, and gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity–increases the likelihood of divorce from an different-sex spouse. We examine this association using data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey and the 2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth. In both sub-studies, multivariate logistic regression analyses indicate that same-sex sexuality reduces the odds of ever marrying. However, among the once-married, same-sex desire/attraction, sexual behavior, and gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity respectively increase the odds of different-sex divorce net of demographic and early-life factors. Same-sex sexuality puts a brake on divorce by preventing some different-sex marriages that would ultimately end in divorce, but is associated with an increase risk of different-sex divorce among once-married individuals.
AB - Despite symbolic linkages between heterosexuality and marriage, and a pervasive heteronormative ideology of romantic love, little population-representative research examines whether same-sex sexuality–desire/attraction, behavior, and gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity–increases the likelihood of divorce from an different-sex spouse. We examine this association using data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey and the 2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth. In both sub-studies, multivariate logistic regression analyses indicate that same-sex sexuality reduces the odds of ever marrying. However, among the once-married, same-sex desire/attraction, sexual behavior, and gay, lesbian, or bisexual identity respectively increase the odds of different-sex divorce net of demographic and early-life factors. Same-sex sexuality puts a brake on divorce by preventing some different-sex marriages that would ultimately end in divorce, but is associated with an increase risk of different-sex divorce among once-married individuals.
KW - Divorce
KW - bisexual (LGB)
KW - gay
KW - heteronormativity
KW - homosexuality
KW - lesbian
KW - marriage
KW - romantic love
KW - same-sex sexuality
KW - sociology
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U2 - 10.1080/00918369.2019.1651111
DO - 10.1080/00918369.2019.1651111
M3 - Article
C2 - 31437419
AN - SCOPUS:85071325605
SN - 0091-8369
VL - 68
SP - 311
EP - 335
JO - Journal of Homosexuality
JF - Journal of Homosexuality
IS - 2
ER -