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Marriage Equality Could Bring Millions to Illinois |
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Opening marriage to same-sex couples in Illinois will have positive effects for 23,049 couples raising 7,662 children, according to a Williams Institute news release. Weddings by resident Illinois couples alone will generate between $39 and $72 million over 3 years.
As the Illinois legislature considers a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry, the Williams Institute, a leading research institute on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy at the UCLA School of Law, released the following statistics and references to illustrate the potential impacts of the bill. The data below are based on Williams Institute analyses, with the source of the data analyzed, or supporting publication, following in parentheses.
SAME-SEX COUPLES AND THEIR FAMILIES:
There are an estimated 23,049 same-sex couples in Illinois. [Census 2010] An estimated 3,831 of the same-sex couples in Illinois are raising approximately 7,662 children. [Census 2010] Nationally, an estimated 1 10,000 same-sex couples are raising children, more than 200,000 children in total. [Census 2010]
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March 28, 2012
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