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Are LGBT Americans actually reaping the benefits of marriage?

  • Written by Jayn Goldsen, Research Study Supervisor, University of Washington

For decades, researchers have studied the benefits of marriage, finding that married people are likely to be healthier, wealthier and wiser than their unmarried peers.

But these studies reflected those who were allowed to marry.

Only recently – when states started passing laws guaranteeing same-sex couples the right to marry – could...

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