[extropy-chat] Re: Gay non-parenting (Was: something else)

[David Lubkin]

Harvey Newstrom wrote:

 > I have never heard of this.  Does that mean gay homeowners can get
 > special tax breaks for not having children?  :-)

Smiley aside, your remark seems premised on the idea that gay homeowners 
are likely to not have children, or much less likely than non-gay homeowners.

Is this true?

Naively, I'd suppose that home ownership and raising children are both 
indicators of adherence to convention, and correlate with each other. 
Although I'd expect a higher percentage of gays owning homes than raising 
children, if only because there are more impediments for gays here and now 
to the latter than the former.

I would predict the cohort with the lowest fraction of minor children in 
their household would be gay non-homeowners and the highest fraction would 
be non-gay homeowners. I'm not sure which would be higher, gay homeowners 
or non-gay non-homeowners.


-- David Lubkin.