(Boston, Massachusetts) Statistics obtained from town clerks across Massachusetts show that more than one-thousand same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses Monday, the first day that licenses were available to gay and lesbian couples.
The Boston Globe questioned about 750 couples who applied for licenses across the state and found that two-thirds of the applicants were lesbians. Forty percent of those female couples have children in their homes. It also found half the couples have been together for at least a decade.
"To the extent that people associate marriage with children, and the stability that marriage provides when you're raising children, you might see women more likely to be getting married, because the female couples are more likely to have the children," Gary Gates, a demographer at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and the author of the recently published "Gay and Lesbian Atlas," told the Globe.
The survey also found the he largest age group was 40 to 49 years old and that the median age was 43.
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