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Fighting for Fairness and Equality for Ten Years and Counting!

The Alternatives to Marriage Project (AtMP) is a national nonprofit organization advocating for equality and fairness for unmarried people, including people who are single, who choose not to marry, cannot marry, or live together before marriage. More about us. We invite you to fill out our online survey.

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December 24, 2008
What do people really mean when they talk about commitment?  How do people honor the real commitments in their lives?  Are single women in India really happy?  Essays and letters on these topics are featured in AtMP's latest newsletter.  Plus - talk about commitment - meet the couple who founded AtMP ten years ago, some of the donors who have supported us for a decade, and the volunteers who made everything happen in 2008.  Want to print out the newsletter to read later?  Download the PDF.
 
December 4, 2008
Congratulations to New York Times columnist Gail Collins for shining a big light on singlism, a term coined by Dr. Bella DePaulo (an AtMP member) to describe the social stigma and legal discrimination facing single people, including Homeland Security Secretary-designate Janet Napolitano. Commenting on the Times column, AtMP executive director Nicky Grist concludes "It is time to recognize that being single is not just a phase, and singlism is not a joke."
 
November 25, 2008
Happy National Family Week! President Bush salutes the "parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other family members" who shape each child. We invite him and President-elect Obama to understand that real families go beyond blood and marriage, embracing all the relationships that enrich each person's lifelong journey. Government definitions of family have huge impact. That's why so many experts signed on to AtMP's Affirmation of Family Diversity.
 
November 21, 2008
Introducing the Unmarried Blog! What's the best way to respond to marriage discrimination?  Are you ready to divorce in protest? How could a test case get to the U.S. Supreme Court?  Should government stop licensing marriage? What did folks say when you announced your marriage boycott? People everywhere are bursting with ideas.  Join the conversation here, now!
 
November 20, 2008
Welcome to listeners of CBS radio affiliates around the country!  You heard Nicky Grist, AtMP's executive director, describe how the grassroots marriage boycott is intensifying in response to California's Prop 8. 
 
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