Posted on 07/21/2006 7:32:55 AM PDT by presidio9
Yeah, nice stopping power.
Wooof. Wooof.
Any suggestions for ending the 50%+ divorce rate for straight couples?
>Any suggestions for ending the 50%+ divorce rate for straight couples?,
Do away with no fault divorce.Require pre-marital counceling.
Don't allow second marriages. 1st time divorce rate is significantly below 50%.
Right you are: In order to destroy the concept of marriage, you first have to degrade and weaken it as an institution. "Gay marriage" is an attack from inside the fortress called "family."
yes, have the Massachusetts supreme court force the legislature to make up a new law calling divorce something else and completly change the meaning of the word, then have the MA state senate not allow anyone in the state to vote on it even though the voters petitioned to vote on it, oh sorry that's what they did to marriage
"Divorce rate" is one of those terms that is great for bar bets and never ending arguments. The majority of people who get married, get married only once. And the majority of people who get divorced, get divorced only once. Most divorce comes from a smaller minority who have many marriages (and divorces). Depending on how you think and argue about "divorce rate" anyone can win!
I'll take the 1965 Dodgers against the 1927 Yankees.
(Although the content of this comment has nothing to do with lesbian relationship, I hope I'm still on point.)
That's cool, because the '98 Yankees would beat them both.
Two words: Koufax, Drysdale.
(And to stay on thread, it isn't too surprising that gay and lesbian marriages should suffer divorces in a way that is similar to straight marriages. This particular case is tough with the involvement of children.)
eeewww!
Yes, make any couple who gets divorced pay all of the taxes they saved while being married.
Two numbers: 125 & 50.
I would think that children are less of a problem with gay divorces. There can be only one biological parent.
normally one of them plays the "butch" from what I've heard
It's been a while, huh?
"There have been about 45 divorces; the number of separations has not been reported."
Of course not. I've known gay and lesbian people my entire adult life, and in my experience the homosexual relationships are far more volatile than heterosexual relationships. Among the men, the homosexual norm is promiscuity. Not all the gay men, of course, just most of the ones that I knew personally. Among the woman, the homosexual norm was serial monogamy, with the average relationship lasting about five years.
I would bet that the number of separations among the gay marriage couples is far higher than the number of separations among hetereosexuals. That's probably why it isn't being reported, since the template is to make gay marriages morally equivalent to hetereosexual marriage.
Another factoid: I looked up the population of Massachusetts on google. Assuming that 0.6% of the population is lesbian and 1.8% is gay male (numbers that I read somewhere), there would be about 152,400 homosexuals living there. My figures show that 4.7% of the homosexual population in that state have chosen to get married - not the same proportion as the heterosexual population, certainly. If you want to increase the number of homosexuals there, the proportion getting married shrinks accordingly. My point is that there is no mass movement among homosexuals to get married - not that I needed convincing about that point. It's interesting to see it shown in the numbers, though.
They did better than most Hollywood marriages...
Happened to a couple I know really well. Lived together for over a decade and were divorced before their first anniversary.
normally one of them plays the "butch" from what I've heard
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from the looks of them, either could :-) -- clearly a shortage female hormones!!!
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