For the first time in history, over half of all American women are single. This trend has been predominantly driven by the growing number of younger women who are delaying marriage, but it's not ...
I have quite a few friends who are single. Not all of them chose to be—some are widowed, some divorced, and that meant dealing with the unexpected loss of a loving partner. But it’s clear that some ...
If you’re a happily single woman, I’d recommend keeping that to yourself. Not because the information itself is so very damning, but because there’s no good way to convey it—no safe way for those ...
Emotionally, singles are systematically disadvantaged, but they are advantaged too. In “Affective intensities of single life,” published in the journal Sociology, the Finnish scholars Marjo ...
OLD MAID. SPINSTER. CHILDLESS CAT LADY. For literally centuries now, everyone from gossipmongers to vice presidential candidates has slung dismissive sobriquets to describe the single woman experience ...
Women would rather accept the “singles tax” than couple up. The “singles tax” — the higher costs that singles pay financially supporting themselves — recently rose to over $7,000, according to Zillow, ...
I am happier as a single mother than I ever was as a married one. Despite the fact that 47% of Americans think single mothers are bad for society, becoming one made my life and my children’s lives ...
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