Women in different-sex marriages reported the highest level of stress, noted the report from authors Michael A. Garcia and Debra Umberson. Meanwhile, men in different-sex marriages and women in same-sex marriages fell in the middle. [...]
There are a number of potential reasons for this distressing disparity, and most relate to traditional expectations of gender. Historically, women were expected to perform the lion's share of the household chores — an expectation that still impacts different-sex marriages today. [...]
There's also good justification for The Kids Are All Right. Couples in same-sex marriages spend more time with their children, in part because they have a far lower percentage of children who are unintended or unwanted. The Times piece cited a 2011 study reporting that 45 percent of pregnancies in the United States were unintended, and 18 percent were unwanted.
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