Some stories about single people are manufactured to scare them. Others, though, capture legitimate concerns. For example, if you are single and live alone, what are you going to do if and when you get to the point where you need help with everyday life tasks, such a bathing, eating, or getting around?

Did you have at your fingertips – or even in the deep recesses of your mind – the answer to the question in the title of this article? Did you know that Donald Trump has five kids from three marriages? And if you didn’t know that, why didn’t you?

The number of single women in the U.S. has been increasing markedly. Their growing numbers, together with their very disproportionate support for Democratic candidates, should, in theory, make them a potentially powerful political force. But as a new study has shown, single women are not even taken seriously by the 471 women’s organizations that should […]

The bias against single people that I call “singlism” is pervasive. The stereotyping, stigmatizing, and marginalizing of single people, and the discrimination against them, shows up in the workplace, the marketplace, the classroom, and the boardroom; in politics, the military, and in the laws of the land; in places of worship, in psychotherapy, and in […]

What are some of the terrible things that can happen in your life? At a scholarly talk that I attended, the speaker had a slide that offered some answers. They included, for example, contracting a deadly disease, killing yourself, not being able to find employment, and…not ever getting married.

[Bella’s intro: This past semester, Craig Wynne, who has written a guest post for Unmarried Equality, taught a composition course at Hampton University with the theme of marriage and singlehood. One of his students, Lauren Frick, a journalism major, wrote an essay that was so terrific, he sent it to me for consideration as a […]

I’m still reeling from the report I discussed in my previous column, “The Case Against Marriage Fundamentalism: Embracing Family Justice for All.” I had known, in some abstract way, that the effort to celebrate marriage and delegitimize and stigmatize all other kinds of families and lifepaths was an organized one. I knew it was well-funded. […]

For advocates of unmarried equality, “The Case Against Marriage Fundamentalism: Embracing Family Justice for All” is one of the most important reports of our time.

[Bella’s intro: When rental agents have an option to rent a property to a married couple, a cohabiting couple, or a pair of friends, they favor the married couple very disproportionately, even when the applicants are similar in every other way. That’s what my colleagues and I found in our studies of housing discrimination. When […]

“Working Families”: The Language Is a Problem and So Are the Policies Leaders and candidates from different political parties in the U.S. differ sharply in many ways, but on one matter, they seem united. Just about all of them claim to care about “working families.” I have a problem with that. Actually, several problems.