Why do lesbians have such crazy high divorce rates?

Note: This column first appeared on Cashill’s substack.

For a concise – and funny – exploration of marriage and divorce, a good place to start is with Australian comedian Jim Jeffries, “The highest rate of divorce are lesbian,” says Jeffries. “By a mile. Lesbian marriages have the highest – check it – highest rate of divorce in the world.”

Before getting to Jeffries’ simple explanation of why this is so, I took him up on his dare to “check it.” To start, I asked Google AI, “Do lesbians...