same-sex relationships

• same-sex relationships increasing or decreasing?

  -increasing

  -Stonewall estimates 5-7% of adult population
• why are same sex relationships said to be increasing?


  due to increased social acceptance
• where does evidence for changing attitudes to same sex relationships come from?

  British Social Attitudes Survey (2013)
• examples of social acceptance of same sex relationships in social policy

  -Sexual Offences Act 1967

  -Public Order Act 1994

  -Civil Partnership Act 2004

  -Marriage Act 2013
• Weeks (1999)


  -argues increased social acceptance of same sex relationships has affected the way same sex couples conduct their relationship

  > increasing cohabitation and more stable, long-term relationships