
Marriage Policy Encourages One Spouse to Stay Home and the Other to Work
How will this affect same-sex couples as they gain more and more legal rights?
Are same-sex marriages different from heterosexual ones? Does the institution change when it’s expanded to include gay couples? For a long time there wasn’t enough data to answer those questions. But now that same-sex marriage has been legal in parts of the United States and Europe for a decade, there’s finally enough research. In “The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss,” Liza Mundy offers an analysis of this research to determine how same-sex married couples are distinctive, and how they’re not. Here, we take an in-depth look at the studies, trends, and still-open questions Mundy explores in her piece.
How will this affect same-sex couples as they gain more and more legal rights?
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