2025/01/01 by Christopher Julian, Krista K. Payne, Wendy D. Manning · 1 voice
Medicine · #Reproductive Health and Technologies
paper · doi:10.25035/ncfmr/fp-25-21
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision. In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau updated the American Community Survey’s (ACS) household roster to directly identify same-sex and different-sex married and cohabiting couples. Drawing on the American Community Survey, 2019, 2021, and 2023 1-year estimates from IPUMS USA (Ruggles et al., 2024), we provide the most recent estimates of trends in same-sex marriage formation. We compare same-sex and different-sex newlyweds by marital history, age, and education, limiting our analyses to householders and their spouses. Although "sex" and "gender" are distinct concepts, we use the term "sex" to align with ACS roster language, which classifies couples as "same-sex" or "opposite-sex" (Kreider & Gurrentz, 2019). This brief updates FP-09-23 (Westrick-Payne & Manning, 2023). Find our other family profiles on LGBTQ+ families here.