Change of Subject: 'Perhaps the real threat to marriage is...'

From The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss by Liza Mundy in this month's Atlantic

Despite?or maybe because of?their perfectionist approach to egalitarianism, lesbian couples seem to be more likely to break up than gay ones. Pepper Schwartz noted this in the early 1980s, as did the 2006 study of same-sex couples in Sweden and Norway, in which researchers speculated that women may have a ?stronger general sensitivity to the quality of relationships.? Meaning maybe women are just picky, and when you have two women, you have double the pickiness. So perhaps the real threat to marriage is: women.

The preceding passage:

?A 2006 study of Sweden and Norway found higher dissolution rates among same-sex couples in registered partnerships than among married straight people. Yet in the United States, a study by the Williams Institute has found that gay unions have lower dissolution rates than straight ones. It is simply too soon to tell with any certainty whether gay marriages will be more or less durable in the long run than straight ones.

It's a long and thoughtful look at? "The question of whether gays and lesbians will change marriage, or vice versa."

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Source: http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2013/06/perhaps-the-real-threat-to-marriage-is.html

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