Ever since my new book, Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life, was published in December, something magical has happened: more and more people have let it be known that they want to be single at heart. They want to fit the profile. That includes people in committed romantic relationships […]

Recently, I had the great honor of talking to Elisa Batista of UltraViolet about the power and potential of single women, and of course my Single at Heart book. In case you are not already familiar with the group, “UltraViolet is a powerful and rapidly growing community of people mobilized to fight sexism and create […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]