What We Really Know About Single Life
This page started out as a collection of critiques of studies of married vs. single people. I have now expanded it to include collections of writings on all sorts of…
Lifelong Single People: Here’s What We Know
The number of single people has been growing for more than a half-century. Of all Americans who are unmarried, the biggest proportion of them, by far, are people who have…
Bigger, Broader Ways of Thinking about Relationships, Family, and Love
Relationships, love, family – these are all concepts that should be far-reaching and open-armed. Instead, they have been squeezed into narrow, stifling boxes. ‘Relationship’ is too often a shorthand for…
Are You Single and Interested in Parenting Partnerships?
If you are single and looking for a parenting partner, or if you already have a partner but do not yet have a child, here’s an opportunity to participate in…
Single, No Children: Who Is Your Family?
I previously wrote a chapter for a scholarly volume on a topic that seemed to interest a lot of readers: “Single, no children: Who is your family?” Like many academic…
Divorce, Widowhood, and Remarriage
Much of my writing about single life is about people who have always been single, or about all unmarried people, regardless of whether they have always been single or have…
Who Counts as Single? What Should the Different Kinds of Single People Be Called?
Who counts as single? There is more than one possible answer. Who counts as family if you are single and have no kids? What should we call adults who have…
Single Parents and Their Children: The Good News No One Ever Tells You
I have been scrutinizing the research on single parents and their children for more than a decade. I’ve learned lots of things, but perhaps the most important one is this:…
Check Your Marital Privilege
[This article is co-authored – in alphabetical order – by Lisa Arnold, Rachel Buddeberg, Christina Campbell, and Bella DePaulo. We are cross-posting it on all of our blogs.] “White privilege”…