Same-Sex Parents in the Netherlands

In collaboration with Statistics Netherlands (CBS), we published an article on the demography of same-sex parents in the Netherlands. In the year that marks 25 years of same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, this topic is particularly timely. Some key highlights:

• The number of same-sex parent couples increased nearly sixfold between 1995 and 2024
• Around 90% are two-mother couples, while two-father couples remain a small minority
• Same-sex parent couples tend to have fewer children and have children at older ages
• Age differences between partners are larger, especially among two-father couples
• Two-mother couples are more often highly educated, while income patterns differ between groups

Read more about it here.