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Mark Tully - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Louis Jacob, Lee Smith, Laurie T. Butler, Yvonne Barnett, Igor Grabovac, Daragh T. Mcdermott, Nicola C. Armstrong, Anita Yakkundi, Mark TullyAbstract:Background: On 23rd March 2020, the UK government released self-isolation/social distancing guidance to reduce the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The influence such guidance has on sexual activity is not known. Aim: To investigate levels and correlates of sexual activity during COVID-19 self-isolation/social distancing in a sample of the UK public. Methods: This paper presents preplanned interim analyses of data from a cross-sectional epidemiological study, administered through an online survey. Outcomes: Sexual activity was measured using the following question: “On average after self-isolating how many times have you engaged in sexual activity weekly?” Demographic and clinical data were collected, including sex, age, marital status, employment, annual household income, region, current smoking status, current alcohol consumption, number of chronic physical conditions, number of chronic psychiatric conditions, any physical symptom experienced during self-isolation, and number of days of self-isolation/social distancing. The association between several factors (independent variables) and sexual activity (dependent variable) was studied using a multivariable logistic regression model. Results: 868 individuals were included in this study. There were 63.1% of women, and 21.8% of adults who were aged between 25 and 34 years. During self-isolation/social distancing, 39.9% of the population reported engaging in sexual activity at least once per week. Variables significantly associated with sexual activity (dependent variable) were being male, a younger age, being married or in a Domestic Partnership, consuming alcohol, and a higher number of days of self-isolation/social distancing. Clinical Implications: In this sample of 868 UK adults self-isolating owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of sexual activity was lower than 40%. Those reporting particularly low levels of sexual activity included females, older adults, those not married, and those who abstain from alcohol consumption. Strength and Limitations: This is the first study to investigate sexual activity during the UK COVID-19 self-isolation/social distancing. Participants were asked to self-report their sexual activity potentially introducing self-reporting bias into the findings. Second, analyses were cross-sectional and thus it is not possible to determine trajectories of sexual activity during the current pandemic. Conclusion: Interventions to promote health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic should consider positive sexual health messages in mitigating the detrimental health consequences in relation to self-isolation/social distancing and should target those with the lowest levels of sexual activity. Jacob L, Smith L, Butler L, et al. Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. J Sex Med 2020;17:1229–1236.
Louis Jacob - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Louis Jacob, Lee Smith, Laurie T. Butler, Yvonne Barnett, Igor Grabovac, Daragh T. Mcdermott, Nicola C. Armstrong, Anita Yakkundi, Mark TullyAbstract:Background: On 23rd March 2020, the UK government released self-isolation/social distancing guidance to reduce the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The influence such guidance has on sexual activity is not known. Aim: To investigate levels and correlates of sexual activity during COVID-19 self-isolation/social distancing in a sample of the UK public. Methods: This paper presents preplanned interim analyses of data from a cross-sectional epidemiological study, administered through an online survey. Outcomes: Sexual activity was measured using the following question: “On average after self-isolating how many times have you engaged in sexual activity weekly?” Demographic and clinical data were collected, including sex, age, marital status, employment, annual household income, region, current smoking status, current alcohol consumption, number of chronic physical conditions, number of chronic psychiatric conditions, any physical symptom experienced during self-isolation, and number of days of self-isolation/social distancing. The association between several factors (independent variables) and sexual activity (dependent variable) was studied using a multivariable logistic regression model. Results: 868 individuals were included in this study. There were 63.1% of women, and 21.8% of adults who were aged between 25 and 34 years. During self-isolation/social distancing, 39.9% of the population reported engaging in sexual activity at least once per week. Variables significantly associated with sexual activity (dependent variable) were being male, a younger age, being married or in a Domestic Partnership, consuming alcohol, and a higher number of days of self-isolation/social distancing. Clinical Implications: In this sample of 868 UK adults self-isolating owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of sexual activity was lower than 40%. Those reporting particularly low levels of sexual activity included females, older adults, those not married, and those who abstain from alcohol consumption. Strength and Limitations: This is the first study to investigate sexual activity during the UK COVID-19 self-isolation/social distancing. Participants were asked to self-report their sexual activity potentially introducing self-reporting bias into the findings. Second, analyses were cross-sectional and thus it is not possible to determine trajectories of sexual activity during the current pandemic. Conclusion: Interventions to promote health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic should consider positive sexual health messages in mitigating the detrimental health consequences in relation to self-isolation/social distancing and should target those with the lowest levels of sexual activity. Jacob L, Smith L, Butler L, et al. Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. J Sex Med 2020;17:1229–1236.
M.v. Lee Badgett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Congressional Testimony on HR 2517 , "The Domestic Partnreship Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009"
Williams Institute, 2009Co-Authors: M.v. Lee BadgettAbstract:Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett's written testimony delivered to the Congressional Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia on HR 2517: Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligation Act of 2009. If passed, the legislation would extend federal employee benefits to Domestic partners of federal workers.
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Marriage, Registration and Dissolution by Same-Sex Couples in the U.S.
Williams Institute, 2008Co-Authors: Gary J. Gates, M.v. Lee BadgettAbstract:This study analyzes data from states that have extended legal recognition to same-sex couples. Analyses show that same-sex couples want and use these new legal statuses. Furthermore, they react more enthusiastically when marriage is possible. More than 40% of same-sex couples have formed legal unions in states where such recognition is available. Same-sex couples prefer marriage over civil unions or Domestic Partnerships. In the first year that marriage was offered in Massachusetts, 37% of same-sex couples there married. In states that offered civil unions, only 12% of same-sex couples took advantage of this status in the first year and only 10% did so in states with Domestic Partnership registries.
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The Impact of the Colorado Domestic Partnership Act on Colorado's State Budget
Williams Institute, 2006Co-Authors: M.v. Lee Badgett, Brad Sears, Roger Lee, Danielle MaccartneyAbstract:Author(s): Badgett, M.V. Lee; Sears, Brad; Lee, Roger; MacCartney, Danielle | Abstract: This analysis estimates the impact of establishing Domestic Partnership for same-sex couples on Colorado's state budget. Using the best data available, we estimate that allowing same-sex couples to enter into Domestic Partnerships under the proposed "Colorado Domestic Partnership Benefits and Responsibilities Act" will result in a net gain of approximately $1.2 million each year for the State. This net increase will result from savings in expenditures on state means-tested public benefits programs and from an increase in sales tax revenue from registration celebrations.
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The Cost to Ocean County of Providing Pension Benefits to Employee's Domestic Partners
Williams Institute, 2006Co-Authors: M.v. Lee BadgettAbstract:As a result of the passage of the Domestic Partnership Act of 2004, counties in New Jersey have the option of extending spousal pension benefits to Domestic partners of county employees, just as the state does. One common question related to these benefits concerns their cost to the county, in this case to Ocean County. Based on the current structure of the pension plans that Ocean County employees belong to, and based on data from the State, I estimate that the cost to the county would be less than $70,000 per year. Below I outline the details of how I arrived at this calculation.
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The Impact of the Domestic Partnership Act on Employer Health Care Costs (New Jersey)
Williams Institute, 2003Co-Authors: M.v. Lee Badgett, Brad SearsAbstract:We offer this memo in response to your concern that the Domestic Partnership Act (DPA) may result in increased costs to New Jersey businesses. New Jersey employers commonly provide certain benefits to employees as part of a compensation package. These include health benefits, death benefits, retirement benefits, survivor benefits, and various leave programs. Some of these benefits cover an employee's spouse and the children of the employee's spouse, as well as the employee. If enacted, the DPA will require that businesses provide similar benefits to employees' registered same-sex Domestic partners. It will not increase the eligibility for employees' registered different-sex Domestic partners. In this memo, we focus on health care benefits, since the rising cost of health care premiums has been a concern raised by New Jersey businesses.
Pilar Juarez Perez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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CUADERNOS DE DERECHO TRANSNACIONAL, 2019Co-Authors: Pilar Juarez PerezAbstract:Resumen: Se deniega la pension de viudedad a una nacional uruguaya que habia convivido con un compatriota como pareja de hecho durante veinticinco anos y de cuya union habia nacido una hija. El motivo es la no inscripcion de la pareja de hecho en el registro ad hoc, ni su formalizacion en escritura publica, conforme a lo exigido por el articulo 221 LGSS. Sobre la base del articulo 9.1 CC, la demandante alega su condicion de extranjera para defender la aplicacion de su ordenamiento de origen, que no establece dichos requisitos. El Tribunal rechaza el argumento, anteponiendo el caracter “ ad solemnitatem ” de las mencionadas exigencias, que las eleva a la categoria de requisitos constitutivos de la pareja de hecho. Precisamente sobre este caracter constitutivo se sustenta la distincion, a efectos de Seguridad Social, entre parejas de hecho “de derecho” y parejas de hecho “de hecho”. Palabras clave: pension de viudedad, Derecho internacional privado, uniones/parejas de hecho, inscripcion registral, documento notarial. Abstract: A Uruguayan national is denied the widow’s pension due to dead of her co-habiting partner, also Uruguayan. They have been living together during twenty five years, and they had daughter, who was born in Uruguay. The Partnership was not registered neither was certified in a public deed, as required by the Spanish social security legislation in order to be entitled to a survivor’s pension. The applicant seeks the application of her national law, that doesn’t have these requirements. The Court rejects the request considering that these requirements have constitutive nature. This constitutive nature is used by the Spanish courts for distinguishing between unmarried partner formal and unmarried partner factual. Keywords: widow’s pension, private international law, unmarried couples/life partners, registration, notarial deed.
Gary J. Gates - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Estimated 780,000 Americans in Same-Sex Marriages
2015Co-Authors: Gary J. Gates, Frank NewportAbstract:Approximately 0.3% of adults in the U.S. are married to a same-sex spouse, and another 0.5% identify as being in a same-sex Domestic Partnership. In examining the total population of 243 million U.S. adults, these survey estimates suggest nearly 2 million adults are part of a same-sex couple, of whom 780,000 are married.
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Same-Sex couples in US Census Bureau Data: Who Gets Counted and Why
2010Co-Authors: Gary J. GatesAbstract:This research brief highlights key findings of a national survey of cohabiting same-sex couples designed to understand if and how they completed their Census 2010 forms and why they chose the options they did to identify their relationship. Findings suggest that as many as 1 in 7 same-sex couples will not be identified as such in Census 2010. Analyses also show that 30% of same-sex couples were either married (14%) or in a civil union or registered Domestic Partnership (15%), but more than 4 in 10 of these couples lived in states that do not recognize their legal status. Virtually all couples who described their relationship as unmarried partners on the Census form were either not married or were married but lived in a state that did not recognize their marriage. Of those who described themselves as spouses, 71% were married and 15% were in a civil union or registered Domestic Partnership.
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Registered Domestic Partnerships among gay men and lesbians: the role of economic factors
Review of Economics of the Household, 2008Co-Authors: M. V. Lee Badgett, Gary J. Gates, Natalya C. MaiselAbstract:In this paper, we predict the demand for a marriage-like status—registered Domestic Partnership–among same-sex couples. Domestic Partnership in the state of California now comes with almost all of the rights and responsibilities of marriage that a state can provide. We use the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Tobacco Use Survey conducted by the California Department of Health and the Field Research Corporation in 2003. From this telephone survey, we use a probability sample of 1,002 lesbian and gay individuals in California. Using multinomial probit models of Partnership status (single, not cohabiting, cohabiting, or registered), we find limited evidence of economic motivations in the choice to register. Gay men’s likelihood of registration rises with income; lesbians’ probability of registration rises with age. Couples with longer duration are more likely to register, suggesting that registration and duration are complementary signals of commitment and possibly of the need for rights and benefits of registration.
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Marriage, Registration and Dissolution by Same-Sex Couples in the U.S.
Williams Institute, 2008Co-Authors: Gary J. Gates, M.v. Lee BadgettAbstract:This study analyzes data from states that have extended legal recognition to same-sex couples. Analyses show that same-sex couples want and use these new legal statuses. Furthermore, they react more enthusiastically when marriage is possible. More than 40% of same-sex couples have formed legal unions in states where such recognition is available. Same-sex couples prefer marriage over civil unions or Domestic Partnerships. In the first year that marriage was offered in Massachusetts, 37% of same-sex couples there married. In states that offered civil unions, only 12% of same-sex couples took advantage of this status in the first year and only 10% did so in states with Domestic Partnership registries.
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the effect of marriage equality and Domestic Partnership on business and the economy
Williams Institute, 2006Co-Authors: M Lee V Badgett, Gary J. GatesAbstract:As public discussion of the issue of marriage equality for same-sex couples continues in many parts of the United States, policymakers have asked about the larger economic impact of recognizing same-sex couples. This brief outlines the potential benefits and costs to businesses if states grant marriage rights or Domestic partner/civil union status to same-sex couples. We assume that those state policies would require employers to treat same-sex spouses or partners of employees in the same way that different-sex spouses are treated.