Family Diversity - same-sex relationships

Question 1

What are the trends in science sex relationships?

Answer 1

• 5 to 7% of the population today have same-sex relationships
  -However this is difficult to judge because of past sigma and illegality
  -In 2014 the first gay marriages in the UK took place

Question 2

Are homosexual relationships and families similar or different to heterosexual ones?

Answer 2

-Weeks sees gays as creating families based on the idea of ‘ friendship as kinship’ we friendship becomes a kind of kinship network. There are chosen families and argue their offer the same security and stability as a heterosexual family.
- Western describes same-sex cohabitation as ‘ quasi marriage’ many gay couples are now deciding to cohabit a stable partners
-Weeks also argues that increase social acceptance explains trends in recent years towards same-sex cohabitation and stable relationship are as assemble those found among heterosexual
- Dunne found that lesbian relationships more like to be symmetrical than heterosexual ones due to lack of traditional assumption about depiction of labour meaning more negotiation