How Friends Can Be Protected and Benefitted in the Law
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
3w ago
In the US, hundreds of laws benefit and protect only people who are legally married. Advocates of fairness for single people have proposed many ways in which laws and policies could be reimagined to put unmarried Americans on equal footing with married Americans. In an important new book, The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with ..read more
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Understanding What Single People Appreciate about Single Life: Another Road to Progress
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
2M ago
Ordinarily, in this Unmarried Equality blog, I focus on matters relevant to social policies and social justice. I’m now thinking that it would be useful to cast a broader net. I’ve been talking to many people in the media since my new book, Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life ..read more
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What Is the One Change That Would Be Most Beneficial to Single People?
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
3M ago
Since Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life was published on December 5, I’ve been asked hundreds of questions by readers, reporters, scholars, podcasters, and TV hosts. Most relevant to the concerns of people who care about fairness to single people was the question posed by sociologist Kris Marsh, author ..read more
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CNBC Asks Why It Is So Expensive to Be Single in the U.S.
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
5M ago
The business news channel CNBC took a serious look at the issue, “Why it’s so expensive to be single in the U.S.,” airing a video of more than 12 minutes – impressive, considering that many segments on news shows are just a few minutes, if that. You can click the link to watch the video ..read more
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The Census Bureau Commemorates Singles Week Because of Thomas F. Coleman
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
6M ago
The third full week of September is Unmarried and Single Americans Week. The Census Bureau has been commemorating that event for 20 years. That is no small thing in a nation so smitten by marriage, a nation in which people who are legally married – regardless of the quality or length of that marriage ..read more
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In Many Places, Single People Can Be Legally Prohibited from Living with Friends
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
8M ago
Big demographic changes in the US over the past half-century have changed the face of the nation. More people are living single – and staying single. Fewer people are having children, or they are having fewer children than the generations before them. That means that today’s adults are increasingly likely to have no spouse, no ..read more
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Deficit Narratives of Single Life Are Perpetuated When Systems of Inequality Are Ignored
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
9M ago
I took my first steps toward studying singlehood, and not just practicing it, in 1992. I wasn’t surprised to find that single people were stereotyped and stigmatized in popular culture. I was dismayed that the same kinds of put-downs appeared even in prestigious nonacademic publications, such as the New Yorker and the New York Times ..read more
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A Singles Pride Movement – from a Half Century Ago
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
9M ago
As a single person who cares very much about the place of single people in society, I look longingly at other groups that have mounted successful social movements. Where is our Singles Pride movement? It turns out that there was such a thing in the US in the 1970s. A person who played a big ..read more
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Longtime UE Member Makes Compelling Argument for Moving Past Marriage
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
10M ago
Unmarried Equality has had various names over the years, such as the American Association for Single People and the Alternatives to Marriage Project. One of the people who has been onboard and an active member across these various transitions is Jacklyn Geller. She has written for our newsletter back when we had such a publication ..read more
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New Book Makes the Case for the Legal Recognition of More Kinds of Families
Unmarried Equality Blog
by Bella DePaulo
1y ago
People who are married have access to many important federal benefits and protections that are not available to single people or the important people in their lives, such as a close friend or a special relative. Those advantages include economic ones, health-related ones, advantages relevant to children, and many others. The economic benefits include, among ..read more
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