April 23rd, 2008
One of the arguments from anti-gays in opposition to marriage equality is that gay people don’t want marriage anyway. But a new study from the Rockway Institute Anthony R. D’Augelli, H. Jonathon Rendina and Katerina O. Sinclair of Pennsylvania State University and Arnold Grossman of New York University suggest that not only do gay youth want to be part of a couple, they expect to be.
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, social scientists have found that many lesbian and gay youth have expectations of spending their adult life in a long-term relationship raising children. More than 90 percent of females and more than 80 percent of males expect to be partnered in a monogamous relationship after age 30. Two thirds of females and more than half of males expressed likelihood that they would raise children in the future.
As gay youth become more aware that they have the opportunity and the right to live their lives openly and with someone they love, the more they grow up expecting to do just that.
It’s ironic, in a way, that the failure of heterosexuals to live up to their own expectations has not jaded gay kids. In a time of 50% heterosexual divorce these kids still believe that love is powerful and meaningful.
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Jason D
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I’ve noticed this among the men my age (31 in a few months) as well.
I have noticed that all those studies that say gays have 8 billion partners a year all seem to come from the 80’s or earlier.
AlexM
April 23rd, 2008
So, any bets on how fast it will be when one of the anti-gay ‘pro-family’ (sheesh) people will claim that the study actually says the opposite?
Joel
April 24th, 2008
“So, any bets on how fast it will be when one of the anti-gay ‘pro-family’ (sheesh) people will claim that the study actually says the opposite?”
Liek we learn in ‘logics’ class…(or i hope i learned soemthing from it, LOL) If they present a study in contradiction, it nullifies it. Maybe use the 80’s one, and one of many possible way to explain it is that their ‘want’ to marry is due more to propoganda than to their actual desires(which, like Stacey Harp points out) is all about sex, surmounted by the ‘evidence’.
Or like pro-gays do with ex-gay studies, they will peruse it, analize it… revise it again and again.. until they find soemthing. So… id give it a week :D.
At any rate… this makes gay ppl sound more like any of their hetero neighbors and less like paraphilias.
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