Obergefell vs Hodges - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:29:31 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Obergefell vs Hodges - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Same-sex households in the US surpass 1 million for the first time https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/12/05/same-sex-households-in-the-us-surpass-1-million-for-the-first-time/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 06:53:43 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=154990 The number of same-sex couple households in the US has surpassed 1 million for the first time, according to recently released government data. There were more than 1.2 million same-sex couple households across the country in 2021, up from 540,000 in 2008, an increase of 120%, the data, taken from the Census Bureau's annual American Read more

Same-sex households in the US surpass 1 million for the first time... Read more]]> The number of same-sex couple households in the US has surpassed 1 million for the first time, according to recently released government data.

There were more than 1.2 million same-sex couple households across the country in 2021, up from 540,000 in 2008, an increase of 120%, the data, taken from the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey, showed.

About 710,000 (59.2%) of the same-sex couple households were married, and about 500,000 (41.7%) were unmarried.

The number of married same-sex households started to outnumber unmarried same-sex households in 2016, following the Supreme Court's landmark 2015 Obergefell vs Hodges ruling, which effectively legalized gay marriage across the US.

The release of this new data coincides with the advancement of landmark legislation that codifies federal protection for marriages of same-sex couples.

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