NEWS FLASH

Census: Same-Sex Couples Most Likely to be Interracial or Interethnic | Same-sex couples are more likely than their opposite-sex counterparts to be interracial or interethnic, and same-couples that include a partner belonging to a racial or ethnic minority are more likely to be raising children, data from the recently released 2010 U.S. Census reveals. One-third of same-sex couples that include an Hispanic partner are raising children. Interracial couples were most prevalent in the West, where 21 percent of all same-sex unmarried households had partners of different races. “Fifty percent of same-sex unmarried partner households in Hawaii had partners of different races, followed by California, Oklahoma, and Alaska (23 percent each).”

– Fatima Najiy