Now that all couples have a right to marry, can we now have a right to be single?
Nuclear Family Privilege: Naming It and Slaying It
October 12, 2015 by
Our organization is called Unmarried Equality for good reason. Those two words should go together. Only they don’t. If you are unmarried, you are unequal. Unequal under the law, unequal in the workplace, unequal in the marketplace, and unequal in everyday life.
Is Marriage a Greedy Institution?
September 14, 2015 by
[This is the sixth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] In our matrimaniacal society, there is a lot of bedrock talk about marriage. The institution, we are told, is the bedrock of society, the very foundation of civilization. It […]
Housing Discrimination against People Who Are Not Married: What We Just Don’t Get
August 16, 2015 by
[This is the fifth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] When advocates for same-sex marriage tried to make their case, there was one obstacle they did not often face – they did not have to persuade many people that […]
Now It’s Really Time for Unmarried Equality
July 18, 2015 by
[This is the fourth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] Now that the Supreme Court, in Obergefell v. Hodges, has made same-sex marriage legal across the land, one of the most popular questions has been, “What’s next?” I think […]
3 Roads to Social Justice – For Lasting Change, We Must Follow Them All
June 14, 2015 by
[This is the third in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] “Unmarried Equality (UE) advocates for equality and fairness for unmarried people, including people who are single, choose not to marry, cannot marry, or live together before marriage.” That’s the […]
The Global Struggle for Unmarried Equality: The Case of Finland
May 14, 2015 by
New Monthly Blog from Bella DePaulo: Bella’s Blog #2 Bella DePaulo (PhD, Harvard), a long-time member of Unmarried Equality, is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After and the forthcoming How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century. She writes […]
Bella’s Blog
April 9, 2015 by
New Monthly blog from Bella DePaulo. Bella DePaulo (PhD, Harvard), a long-time member of Unmarried Equality, is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After and the forthcoming How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century. She writes the “Living Single” […]
National Singles Day to be Celebrated in Los Angeles 1/11/15
January 5, 2015 by
Anyone in the Los Angeles, CA area, please join us on Sunday, January 11th, 2015 in West Hollywood from 1-4 PM to support a wonderful new nationwide Singles’ movement. For more information, copy this link into your browser: http://nationalsinglesday.us/singles-day-2015/singles-day-2015-weho/
Sept 21-27 is Unmarried and Single Americans Week
September 18, 2014 by
Sept 21-27 is Unmarried and Single Americans Week, as recognized by the Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2014/cb14-ff21.html
