From domestic-owner@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU Mon Jun 26 09:06:19 1995 Received: from galois.math.oxy.edu (root@galois.math.oxy.edu [134.69.1.44]) by abacus.oxy.edu (8.6.10/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA17240 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:06:18 -0700 Received: from gate.oxy.edu (gate.oxy.edu [134.69.1.2]) by galois.math.oxy.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA11398 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:06:16 -0700 Received: from ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU (ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.143]) by gate.oxy.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id JAA25024 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:06:53 -0700 Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU id aa03957; 23 Jun 95 11:38:43 EDT Received: from mail06.mail.aol.com by CS.CMU.EDU id aa17859; 23 Jun 95 11:35:31 EDT Received: by mail06.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA050181722; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:35:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:35:23 -0400 From: ASLeonard@aol.com Message-Id: <950623113521_76754568@aol.com> To: queerlaw@abacus.oxy.edu Cc: domestic@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Gay couples Content-Length: 1969 X-Lines: 32 Status: RO New York Newsday has begun a series titled Gay Couples: The Changing Face of New York. The first installment was run on June 22. The series is based on a detailed analysis of the census data from New York City (1990) of those reporting two unrelated adults of the same sex living together. The analysis was done by John Mollenkopf, a professor of political science at the City University's Graduate Center. 11,668 same-sex couples reported their status on the census forms. Same-sex couples were found to have higher household incomes than opposite-sex couples, but it was noted that same-sex couple households were more likely to have two incomes from full-time workers. A variety of statistics are strewn through the two articles that appeared June 22. Perhaps the most interesting was that 30% of lesbian households had children present, compared to 33% of all male-headed households (married couples and unmarried opposite sex partners). 10% of gay male households also reported children being present. So this study helps to undermine the stereotype that for gay families to be raising children is rare; in fact, at any given time, it appears that a significant portion of gay families are raising children, and that almost as many lesbian families are raising children (proportionately speaking) as heterosexual families! Unfortunately, I don't have computer capacity at this time to scan in these two articles and distribute them to the list. I urge somebody who does have such capacity and access through a database to articles from New York Newsday to do so. I think the whole list will find them valuable. Jonathan Mandell, "Gay Couples - The Changing Face of New York - Higher Incomes, Better Educated," NY Newsday, June 22, 1995, p. A0^, City Section Jonathan Mandell, "Gay Couples - The Changing Face of New York - Gays in Mainstream - Same-sex couples find home in NYC, census data show," NY Newsday, June 22, 1995, p. A07, City Section