Talk:Divorce of same-sex couples

Divorce of transsexuals

Could there be a special section on the divorce of transsexuals ? This unusual form of divorce is almost as unusual as transsexual abortion, i.e. when a pregnant transman successfully obtains an abortion. ADM (talk) 17:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

DOMA

"The federal government's denial of recognition to same-sex marriages can also impose penalties when assets transferred in a divorce settlement are treated as gifts for federal tax purposes.[7] " is included in the article but now with DOMA gone, does this need to be changed? Paullb (talk) 05:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of Laws section

In the chart, Wyoming and Arizona are listed as allowing divorce but not marriage; this is no longer accurate, as both states allow same-sex marriage as of the last couple of months. Schnabeltiere (talk) 16:17, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Comparing divorce rates in lesbian and gay committed relationships

The section "Divorce rates/United States" states "Some studies have shown that lesbian committed relationships do not last as long as gay male committed relationships." and cites this HuffPost article as source (Reference #26). However, the article only talks about the differences between same-sex and opposite-sex commited relationships and the respective divorce rates, and doesn't compare between genders in same-sex committed relationships at all.

92.203.200.250 (talk) 12:27, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Persistent insertion of inflammatory, unsupported, apparently false data

I am tagging as disputed an edit made persistently by one user to the percentage of same-sex divorces in the US. That user has (so far) changed the previous percentage ("ranges from 0% to 1.8%, or 1.1% on average") first to "ranges from 0% to 18% on average" and then (following a reversion) to "stands at 28% on average", which is what the article currently says. That user seems determined to publish false data, evidently without regard to exactly what the data IS, only that it be a much higher number than it was. The {{Disputed inline}} template requires this talk-page section, so here it is. —104.244.192.86 (talk) 07:01, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Reference number 25 about 72% divorce rate

I read the reference article and found no statistic that there is a 72% divorce rate. Is this a typo? 2603:6010:860F:A200:D129:38E1:6652:48B5 (talk) 11:47, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Ref. 27 bias

I question the use of Ref. 27 - Allen, Doug; Price, Joseph (2 July 2019). Why is the work of an *economics* professor from *BYU* being cited as if it were an unbiased publication? A reminder, this institution (as of 2019 when this article was published) expressly prohibited professors from speaking or writing in support of LGBTQ relationships and has even fired professors who showed support of LGBTQ ideas in *off campus* media. 2603:6011:4D20:AD:55BF:932E:9F33:7A86 (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

I agree, and I removed it.

I searched online near and far, and then every possible academic database my library login at a large public university gives me access to and could not find any part of this article to read more about the three large samples in question, nor any reference (anywhere) to the 43% vs 8% figures quoted. The only information about Price and Allen's publication I can find is from the link that was used as a reference, which is a link to the publisher's website with a summary, some short authors' notes but no data or figures/findings, and links to buy the paper or purchase a subscription to the publisher's journal database.

The authors are associated with the Witherspoon Institute. The authors also cite and are cited by Mark Regnerus who conducted the New Family Structures Study (2012), which was widely condemned by the academic community for its methodology. (From the Wikipedia article on the study: "Regnerus removed the effects of divorce, infidelity, single parenthood from his heterosexual control group, but not from the gay parent group.") Teyruel (talk) 05:42, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Blatantly Incorrect Information

The article states "Between 2004 and 2009, the average annual divorce rate for all homosexual marriages was almost 80% (the total rate of divorce over those five years was 77%) Also between 2004 and 2009, lesbian divorce rates were nearly double of those of gay men."

However, the cited source does not have the numbers 80% or 77%. The source only mentions that 100 lesbian couples filed for divorce, 45 gay couples filed for divorce, 690 lesbian couples were married, and 610 gay couples were married. The divorced couples are not necessarily the same couples that were married in those years, so it wouldn't even be fair to say that the lesbian divorce rate was 100/690.

Also, if the lesbian divorce rate is double the gay divorce rate, and we assume that the same number of lesbians and gays are married, the maximum total divorce rate is 75%, with the lesbian divorce rate at 100% and the gay divorce rate at 50%. Even with generous rounding, 80% is not reasonable. 50.86.240.11 (talk) 14:40, 14 March 2024 (UTC)