Since April of 2015, I have been writing a monthly column for Unmarried Equality (UE), an advocacy group that has been “standing up for fairness and equal treatment of all people regardless of marital status since 1998.”
I’ll post the links to those columns here, with the most recent ones on top. At the UE site, the column is called “Bella’s Blog.”
Beyond tolerance of single people: I want much more
Why are single women so often ignored by political candidates?
How Friends Can Be Protected and Benefitted in the Law
Understanding What Single People Appreciate about Single Life: Another Road to Progress
What Is the One Change That Would Be Most Beneficial to Single People?
CNBC Asks Why It Is So Expensive to Be Single in the U.S.
The Census Bureau Commemorates Singles Week Because of Thomas F. Coleman
Criminalizing living with friends
Deficit Narratives of Single Life Are Perpetuated When Systems of Inequality Are Ignored
A Singles Manifesto and a Singles Pride Movement – from a Half Century Ago
Longtime UE Member Makes Compelling Argument for Moving Past Marriage
Families of One: Should There Be Such a Thing?
Feeling abandoned by the people in power
The Political Power of Single Women
For the First Time in My Lifetime, Signs of Real Progress for Single People
Businesses and Thought Leaders Who Do Right by Single People
Firms that give huge bonuses to employees who marry
Structural Singlism: The Unfair Treatment Experienced by Every Person Who Is Single
Communities of single people as agents of social change
Why Have Americans Become More Hostile Toward Single Mothers?
Want to Share a Rental with Roommates? In Some Places, That’s Illegal
Why don’t talented single women get promoted?
When more people know members of a group, that group may have more clout
Four in 10 in the US do not believe singles are treated unfairly
How We Are Socialized to Think We Want a Romantic Partner, Even If We Don’t
The Number of Unmarried Americans Continues to Grow, Latest Census Report Shows
What motivates a person to be an ally?
Is housing an issue for older adults with no children? What about hunger?
Everyday prejudices and unfair treatment: The pernicious implications for single people
Finally, legislation designed to help single adults with no children
Economic security for all Americans: How can we get there?
Why Do Unmarried Americans Have Fewer Legal Protections than Other Devalued Groups?
Championing life outside of conventional coupling
Staying Married for the Health Insurance
Identifying with Other Single People: A Step in the Path Toward Justice?
Neera Tanden’s Policy Positions: Implications for Unmarried Americans
Valuing Friends: An Indirect Route to Singles Rights?
Vote, Unmarried Americans! And How We All Need to Watch Our Language
How South Korean businesses are accommodating, not shaming, singles who live alone
Do Unmarried Americans Have the Same Opportunities to Opt-Out during the Pandemic?
Singles More Likely to Go Hungry During COVID-19, and Not Just Because They Have Less Money
Black Americans Hit Especially Hard by Discrimination Against the Unmarried
Discrimination against Unmarried People: Is It Legitimated by the Deficit Narrative of
Care Provider Was Given Riskier Duties Because She Was Unmarried with No Children
Unmarried Voters Are Getting Ignored by Presidential Candidates, the Media, and the Polls
The New Paid Family Leave Laws Seriously Shortchange Single Parents
Medicaid Expansion Helped More Married Than Unmarried Adults
Have Liberals Already Conceded that Conservatives Were Right about Marriage?
Quick – How Many Kids, by How Many Wives, Does Trump Have? The Matter of Family Privilege
Women’s Groups Are Marginalizing and Stereotyping Single Women: New Study
Need a Transplant? You Better Be Married
Attaining Unmarried Equality: Does #MeToo Offer Any Lessons?
Our Goals and Values Are More Inclusive But the Marriage Fundamentalists Have More Power
Powerful New Report Makes the Case Against Marriage Fundamentalism and for Unmarried Equality
Working Families: The Language Is a Problem and So Are the Policies
Contributing to the Rise of Single People: A Global Increase in Rates of Divorce
What Kind of a Year was 2018 for Unmarried Americans?
How Obamacare Improved the Lives of Single People
From Marriage as One-Stop Shopping to Creating Your Own Life, Piece by Piece
Martin Duberman explains why marriage equality was too small a dream
When You Hear “Success Sequence,” Think “Marriage Propaganda”
Unmarried Americans, is it wrong to complain about the small stuff? (Microaggressions in single life)
How unmarried people are ignored even by those who should be paying attention
Please Don’t Make Us Marry to Get Legal Protections, Say Different-Sex Couples in the UK
Fairness for Single People: New Initiative for Calling Out Unfair and Fair Practices
Great Labor Market? Not for Single People
6 Married Therapists Spent 18 Months Confronting Their Own Biases Against Single Women
Israeli Scholar Calls for the Politicization of Singlehood
The Injustices of Unmarried Life Have Been Named, and the Terms Are Sticking
The “Premier Family Form”: Ideology, Shaming, and the Misleading Use of Science
New Survey Shows Openness Toward Diverse Family Forms. Will Nondiscriminatory Policies Follow?
Social Security Massively Favors Married and Previously Married People
The Myth that Married People Are Superior: Challenge It at Your Peril
Taxing Singles More Than Couples: It Is Hard to Find a Country with a Bigger Disparity than the U.S.
Comprehensive Unmarried Equality Must Include Parental Rights for Friends
A Victory for Unmarried Cohabiting Couples in a Time of Horrifyingly Discriminatory Proposals
Will Same-Sex Marriage Undermine One of the Best Things the LGBT Community Gave to the World?
How Unmarried Americans Fare as Home Buyers: Single Women, Single Men, and Unmarried Couples
How the Important People in the Lives of Unmarried Americans Are Shortchanged
We the Unmarried: Universities Just Aren’t into Us, and That Needs to Change
The Subversive Implication of Same-Sex Marriage that No One Predicted
Journalists and Social Scientists Glorify Married People. Will We All Look Back in Shame?
Why Is Marriage Still So Glorified When So Many People Are Not Married?
Beyond the Nuclear Family: New Policies and Practices Are Needed for the Way We Live Now
How the Washington Post (Almost) Published a Week of Respectful Articles about Unmarried Life
Unmarried Status Is a Diversity Issue
Unmarried Americans as Home Buyers and Home Creators
Nuclear family privilege: Naming it and slaying it
Is Marriage a Greedy Institution?
Housing Discrimination Against People Who Are Not Married: What We Just Don’t Get
Now It’s Really Time for Unmarried Equality
3 Roads to Social Justice — For Lasting Change, We Must Follow Them All
The Global Struggle for Unmarried Equality: The Case of Finland
The Marriage Opportunists Are Coming – We Need to Be Prepared (In this first column, there were technical challenges at the UE site, so you can find this column with better formatting and all the links here.)
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