Since the 2021 American Community Survey, respondents have had the option to select “Same-sex husband/wife/spouse.” In 2022, there were just over 730K same-sex married households (see Table 1); one in five of these families has children. Across racial and ethnic groups, at least half of married same-sex households were female-headed. Seventy-eight percent of same-sex married households with children were headed …

