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Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 03:55 PM Apr 2016

The results are in: gay marriages least likely to end in divorce!

The Dutch have opened civil marriage for same-sex couples an impressive 15 years ago. Their Central Bureau for Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS) has monitored how often Dutch marriages have ended in divorce over those years. And the results are... quite counter-intuitive.

Most likely to end in divorce: lesbian marriages (30% of Dutch lesbian marriages are not parted by Death). Least likely to end in divorce: gay marriages! Only 15 % of male-male couples have filed for dissolution of the marriage. And that means that gay marriages are actually more stable than straight marriages, 18% of which end in divorce.

So much for the argument that gays are ruining marriage: we fabulous men are actually driving the average divorce rate DOWN!

Source (in Dutch): http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/4272466/2016/03/30/Lesbische-huwelijken-stranden-het-vaakst.dhtml

As an aside: did anybody else notice that in supposedly godless Dutch society, the sanctity of marriage is upheld much more seriously than among the "godfearing" Americans? Even the Dutch lesbian divorce rate is nowhere near the American average divorce rate of 64%. Clearly, if you want stable marriages, the trick is to be VERY liberal in faith, and try to be as gay as possible in the rest of your marriage.

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The results are in: gay marriages least likely to end in divorce! (Original Post) Betty Karlson Apr 2016 OP
A lot of people get married because of Politicalboi Apr 2016 #1
Even though anything is possible before God, Betty Karlson Apr 2016 #2
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. A lot of people get married because of
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 04:14 PM
Apr 2016

Pregnancy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My Repuke brother did it twice. He's still married.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
2. Even though anything is possible before God,
Sat Apr 2, 2016, 04:26 PM
Apr 2016

I doubt that two gay guys are likely to impregnate one another, thereby necessitating a shotgun wedding.

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