SAME-sex marriage is proving not so happy for homosexuals with divorce rates increasing 10 times faster than hetero divorces.
According to UK newspaper The Times, the number of gay divorces in Britain skyrocketed 92 per cent last year.
The 2019 calendar year recorded 822 gay divorces compared to 422 in 2018.
LESBIANS
By comparison, opposite-sex divorces increased by only nine per cent, kicking a generally downward trend.
Of same-sex divorces, lesbians were most likely to call it quits, recording 72 per cent of the total.
Unreasonable behaviour was the most common reason cited for divorce generally.
Despite last year’s slight increase in hetero divorces, overall figures continue to show a long-term decline in the UK with opposite-sex separations falling by 30 per cent since 2003.
The UK’s Office for National Statistics said last year’s increase was in part attributed to divorce centres processing a backlog of casework that had built up in the previous year.
Partner at Forsters law firm Joanne Edwards said legislation to implement “no fault” divorce had been delayed first by Theresa May’s snap general election and then by Boris Johnson’s prorogation of parliament last year.
TURNBULL
“People were hoping for change in 2018 and delayed their divorces,” she said, adding that they then “gave up on that hope in 2019” and went ahead when the reforms were postponed.
Same-sex marriage was introduced into the UK by David Cameron’s Tory government in 2013, some four years before Malcolm Turnbull did the same in Australia in 2017.
General divorce rates in Australia, like the UK, are trending down, however, a breakdown of same-sex divorce rates is not currently available.
Divorce in Australia started trending down in the 2000s and by 2016 was 1.9 per 1000 marriages, the lowest rate since 1976. It rose slightly in 2017 to sit at 2.0 per thousand.
In 2016, for both men and women, the divorce rate in Australia was highest for those between 25 and 29 years old.
Beyond that, divorce rates lower slightly, staying steady for couples during their 30s before a second peak in their late 40s. After 55, couples become increasingly less likely to divorce.
The largest proportion of couples separating and then divorcing in Australia are those who have been married nine years or less. In 2017, 56 per cent of separations and 43 per cent of divorces were from couples in this category.
However, the proportion of couples divorcing who had been married for 20 years and longer has been increasing in recent decades.PC
It appears that “Love is *not* love”.
I guess that people should be careful what they wish for.
So predictable. Let’s hope that some sort of state funding to ease their dilemma is not going to be sought!
Told you so!