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Marriage between Same-Tex couples is very much a 21st century phenomenon.

The first country, at least in recent history, to legalise Same-Tex marriage was the Netherlands.

That was in 2001, a steady stream of other countries or sub-national regions have followed suit,

and it's now legal in more than two dozen countries, including the United States,

most of Western Europe, and some other large countries such as Brazil and Mexico.

But where there's marriage, there's divorce.

A few days ago, the UK's Office for National Statistics published its summary of the data

for all divorces in England and Wales in 2017, and one section caught our attention,

divorces of Same-Tex couples.

So here's a question, which Same-Tex marriages are more likely to end in divorce,

those between men or those between women?

And the data are clear, about 75% of Same-Tex divorces have been between women.

There have been slightly more marriages between women, but not nearly enough to account for the

difference. So, women are getting divorced from women, a lot more than men are getting divorced

from men. And this isn't just the UK, the same pattern shown in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway,

and Sweden. Everywhere whether a statistics on Same-Tex divorce, it's the Same-Tex,

doing the bulk of the divorcing. This made us wonder what was going on.

But who could help us with such a question? The answer, of course, is, as always, an economist.

We spoke to Dr. Marina Adshade of the Vancouver School of Economics in Canada.

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