While supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage break a spear and distribute the Internet on the bike in fierce disputes, scientists quietly and calmly do their job - count, weighed and viewed in a magnifying glass, without making any conclusions about ethics-morality. Here are some proven facts about same-sex couples, and where to attach this information is to decide.
Same-sex marriages are quite traditional
We say "culture" - mean the "European culture of the XIH-XXI centuries." For this tiny piece of culture is truly characterized by diverse alliances and family of model "Mom, Dad, Son, Dog". But if you look wider, the picture is changing. In some regions of Vietnam, the matriarchy is still distributed - the head of the family is a woman, at the next stage of submission - her daughters, nieces, granddaughters and daughters who take an active part in public life, and their numerous husbands are engaged in the house, serving household needs and people Not shown. Approximately the same thing is on Western Sumatra, some Chinese provinces, in Ghana and in some places in India. This is not a small ethnological curiosity - it's about dozens of millions of people. In Africa and Oceania, soret is common - a man takes his wife not only a maiden, but also all her sisters at once. American Indians and Ancient Romans (where without them) completely calmly and officially entered the same-sex marriages, and in some African countries to this day the widow can re-conclude the union, but already with another woman. In Thailand, there is a huge number of katoes - shemalers and transgender, and only insignificant part of them are busy in the sex industry or dancing at the racks of bars with a dubious reputation. So our familicy family model is nothing more than one of the options, and the same flipstamps and Africans, he also may seem like strange.
Marriage useful for health
And this applies to both the differences and same-sex unions. Simply put, starting to live together, we will be less nervous in any way, sob in a cat and eat frozen pizza. Christine Pruulks from Missouri University proved that happy couples are less common with hypertension and depression and in general they have better with nerves than solo. A group of scientist Mark Hatsen Baler held the same study of homosexual couples and - surprise, surprise! - came to the same conclusions. The official function of the marital status for this effect does not affect, by the way, they are also healthy and in civil marriage, and in bureaucratic.
Their children are more successful. May be
Judith Stacy and Timothy Biblartz examined the fate of girls from ordinary families and lesbian to find out where they were later entitled. It turned out that 53% of girls from families with two mothers after school went to learn from doctors, lawyers and engineers, and only 21% continued in ordinary families. However, the sample was small - 30 families of both discharges.
Their children with them are definitely not worse than with different parents
The American Psychological Association is not a lattice stall, a serious office. In 2005, they were concerned and collected together 59 published articles and 8 dissertations written in the period from 1972 to 2004 and considering the situation of children in homosexual families. The shortest statement of all theses fit into some 80 pages. It turned out that homosexual couples did not differ from those traditional in part of love and care, but much less often use slaps and subtitles as educational measures and read more books on pedagogy. Sleeps from rainbow families have a slightly higher self-esteem, they rapidly make decisions in critical situations, and their success in school is usually higher than the average - although slightly. None of the studies have shown that such children have breaks in gender self-identification more often than in traditional families, and the percentage of gays and lesbians among them are not higher than the middle of the hospital.
Homosexual pairs are stronger than heterosexual
The UK National Statistical Office since 2010 leads a scrupulous count of broken hearts and reports: 5.5% of marriages in England and Wales end with a divorce and a virgin last name during the first 4 years. In the same period, only 2.5 percent of homosexual pairs decomposes. There are no such data in Russia, but here's statistical candy - in the first 4 years of family life, we have about 18% of divorces.
But lesbians or rather gay
In 2003, Vermont University conducted a survey on loyalty, and it turned out that at all-choice and lesbian couples looks about 80% and those and others stated that treason would not fail and change themselves. Among gays, the situation is different - more than half of the steam have nothing against the walk to the left.
They are more likely adopted those who do not need anyone
The study conducted by the Institute of Williams from the University of California in Los Angeles showed that in the percentage of the same-sex couples more often express the desire to take care of children with severe hereditary diseases, disabled children and those who have already come out of the age of a blond angel, and She did not find adoptive parents. Economists on a second are distracted from their calculators and insert that the ban on the adoption of toddles with same-sex couples would cost $ 130 million annually.
They are exactly the same
Oddly enough to reach this, it took a whole study. The psychologist Gregory Herge from the University of California for years interrogated dozens of homo- and heterosexual couples, reposal their interviews, questionnaires and tests and in 2006 made a verdict: all happy couples are the same, feel the same emotions in each other, equally love sex , watch movies under a blanket and find out whose turn to carry a bucket.
