Benefits of gay marriage
Married LGBT older adults are healthier, happier than singles, study finds
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April 13, 2017
Same-sex marriage has been the law of the territory for nearly two years — and in some states for even longer — but researchers can already detect positive health outcomes among couples who have tied the knot, a University of Washington study finds.
For years, studies have linked marriage with happiness among heterosexual couples. But a study from the UW School of Social Work is among the first to search the potential benefits of marriage among LGBT couples. It is part of a national, groundbreaking longitudinal study with a exemplary sample of LGBT older adults, known as “Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, Sexuality/Gender Study,” which focuses on how historical, environmental, psychological, behavioral, social and biological factors are associated with health, aging and quality of life.
UW researchers found that LGBT study participants who were married reported better physical and mental health, more social support and greater financial resource
Marriage equality improved security, stability, and life satisfaction for same-sex couples
New research by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Statute finds that marriage equality has had a profound positive effect on the security and well-being of LGBTQ+ people.
Many married queer couples surveyed said marriage improved their sense of safety and security (83%), life satisfaction (75%), and relationship stability (67%). In addition, marriage has influenced how same-sex couples help and depend on each other. Approximately one in five couples have contributed to each other’s awareness costs, provided caregiving for health issues, disabilities, or aging, or relocated when their spouse got a new job.
In June 2015, the Supreme Court’s judgment in Obergefell v. Hodges extended marriage equality throughout the U.S. Almost two-thirds (63%) of the couples surveyed married post-Obergefell.
About 80% of the couples surveyed were very (41%) or somewhat (38%) concerned that the Obergefell decision would be overturned. One-quarter (25%) had taken steps to protect themselves and their families, such as speeding up the timeline for marriage or parenthood, securing second-
Recently one of our Directors, Kasey Fox, wrote a blog about some of the benefits of equal sex marriage from a family law perspective. Now that the High Court has given the verdant light for the postal vote, I have establish out below 5 additional benefits of same sex marriage from an estate planning perspective.
Whilst it is true that de facto couples enjoy many of the same legal rights that married couples carry out, they do not possess all of them. Matching sex couples can adopt, have children via an IVF process, benefit from superannuation, and inherit from one another. However, there are significant differences, particularly in the details, that should not be ignored.
- It will create clear, predictable, and automatic inheritance rights
- The nature of ‘family’ and the relationships within that family play a significant role in Australian commandment – and that may be understating it. Whether or not a particular kind of relationship exists between two people can and does have an impact on each of their rights and responsibilities.
- For most people, their first relationship is their association with their partner. Where such a relationship exists each member of the couple enjoys rights to the oth
The economic impact of gay marriage
When Christie Caruso, 31, and Sarah West, 29, were planning their wedding, they knew it was going to be big.
“Weddings are very important in my family,” Caruso told Al Jazeera. “We’re Italian, we have a great family, everyone wants to be there, so it was going to be somewhat expensive, and Sarah also has a giant Italian family who feels the same way.”
So Caruso, an event planner, and West, a school counsellor, budgeted $40,000 for their wedding. They married on July 1, 2017, in Connecticut, decked out in beautiful white dresses and surrounded by bridesmaids and groomsmen in blue. For the pair, the evening symbolised something more than a sweet ceremony and a big party: the acceptance of their passion as a same-sex couple.
“It was important for us to have such a big wedding because everybody that we know accepts it, and that was really important for us: just showing people that we love each other,” Caruso said. “Even if you don’t understand it, we want you to see we love each other just as a man and a chick do.”
In the four years since the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage in all 50 states through the Obergefell v Hodges decision, sam
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