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Same-Sex Households with Children in the United States

The following table lists the percentage of same-sex households that have children under 18 in the United States. Find information on female partners and male partners in the four regions of the U.S. Nationwide, 701,733 same-sex partner households represented 0.6% of all coupled households in 2003, according to the Census Bureau. Of these, 363,072 were male partners and 338,661 were female partners.

	Male partners		Female partners
Region	Own children¹	Own and/or unrelated children²	Own children¹	Own and/or unrelated children²
United States	21.8%	22.3%	32.7%	34.3%
Region
Northeast	21.3	21.7	31.2	32.6
Midwest	22.3	22.9	32.8	34.7
South	22.1	23.9	34.4	36.1
West	20.6	21.1	31.5	33.1

1. Refers to own sons/daughters of the householder.

2. Refers to own sons/daughters of the householder and other children not related to the householder.

Source: Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

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