The founder of Britain’s first fertility clinic for same-sex couples has criticised the 2014 introduction of same-sex marriage, saying it has led to a soaring divorce rate among lesbians.
Through her fertility clinic, Natalie Drew discovered that about a third of the 586 lesbian couples she helped to have babies between 2011 and 2015 had split up.* She says: ‘The legalisation of gay marriage has done more damage than good. It hasn’t done lesbians any favours.’
She puts it down to differences between lesbian and male-female couples that mean marriage doesn’t work for them. ‘There’s an expectation you’ll fit into these traditional roles because you’ve done the norm, you’ve done what everyone else has done and got married. But we are not the norm.’
