Parenting Among Married Same-Sex Couples: Experiences, Aspirations, and Barriers

This report focuses on current parenting, desire to parent, and perceived barriers to parenthood among married same-sex couples who are under the age of 50.The analysis is based on a subsample of 263 participants of a larger sample of 448 married same-sex couples, ranging in age from early 20s to 80s.The current subsample represents 58.7% of the larger sample. 1 In limiting the sample to participants under age 50, we aimed to capture participants who were actively parenting children under 18 and those who were in the stage of life where they could or might consider future parenthood.