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…
What’s Wrong with Studies and Claims about the Supposed Benefits of Marriage?
From the days when I first started reading the original journal articles claiming that marriage is beneficial to your health and well-being, I have been stunned by how flawed most…
Part 2: Getting Married Makes You Happier? Again, No
[This post was originally published at Psychology Today. I just discovered that it disappeared! I have no idea why, but I thought I’d just republish it at my own site…
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:…
The New Science of Living Alone: Here’s a Lot of What We Know
Now that solo living is becoming increasingly popular around the world, we know much more about it than we did before. Below is what I have written on the topic…
Getting Married and (Not) Getting Sex
If you get married, will you get more sex and better sex? So far as I know, a methodologically persuasive study has never been done. That would involve following people…
Getting Married and (Not) Getting Healthy: What Decades of Research Really Shows
The assumption that if you get married, you will get healthier is so much a part of our conventional wisdom that it is rarely challenged. Back when I was just…
Single People Are Caring, Connected, Attached, and Unselfish
Among the many myths I busted in Singled Out were the ones that single people are isolated and self-centered. Research on those myths has continued to proliferate, and the results…
Debunking the Myth that Married People Live Longer
Way too many people think that married people live longer. They think it is a fact. It is not. I have been debunking this for years, starting with Singled Out….