O familicidio do "matrimónio" gay

Patricia Morgan is a leading researcher on family policy and author of 

numerous books and scholarly papers on marriage and the state. She has 

researched the effect on marriage when same-sex marriage legislation is 

introduced. 

She has produced the following paper for SPUC based on research and data from

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada the US, and 

concludes that:

• As marriage is redefined to accommodate same-sex couples, this 

reinforces the idea that marriage is irrelevant to parenthood. 

• Same sex marriage leads to the casualisation of heterosexual unions and 

separation of marriage and parenthood.

• Spain saw a pronounced acceleration in the decline of marriage following 

the introduction of same-sex marriage (same-sex marriage was introduced

at the same time as the ‘express divorce bill’).

• Across all countries analysed no causal link has been established to 

support the idea that same-sex marriage prevents marital decline.

• In the move to same-sex marriage, opposite-sex relationships have to 

conform to gay norms rather than vice-versa.

• A publicly professed, legal, partnership does not prevent homosexual 

couples from breaking up more frequently than married heterosexual 

couples.

• Experience with same-sex partnerships/marriage legislation tends to 

suggest that availability is all, and participation more or less irrelevant to 

sexual minorities.

• Same-sex marriage may be the end-game of long-running anti-marriage, 
anti-family policy typified by Sweden.
• Same-sex marriage may begin the process of severing marriage from 
family in otherwise family-friendly societies such as Spain and the 
Netherlands. 
• Same-sex marriage triggers dismemberment of family structures in familyfriendly societies.