3 Roads to Social Justice – For Lasting Change, We Must Follow Them All
[This is the third in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] “Unmarried Equality (UE) advocates for equality and...
View ArticleUE Statement on Obergefell v. Hodges
Unmarried Equality joins in the celebration of the Supreme Court’s long overdue decision that marriage will now be a CHOICE for all! We also call on the U.S. to remember all of us are not married —...
View ArticleNow It’s Really Time for Unmarried Equality
[This is the fourth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] Now that the Supreme Court, in Obergefell v. Hodges,...
View ArticleHousing Discrimination against People Who Are Not Married: What We Just Don’t...
[This is the fifth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] When advocates for same-sex marriage tried to make...
View ArticleIs Marriage a Greedy Institution?
[This is the sixth in my new series of monthly columns. The views expressed here are my own and not the official positions of Unmarried Equality.] In our matrimaniacal society, there is a lot of...
View ArticleNuclear Family Privilege: Naming It and Slaying It
Our organization is called Unmarried Equality for good reason. Those two words should go together. Only they don’t. If you are unmarried, you are unequal. Unequal under the law, unequal in the...
View ArticleThe Right to Be Single
Now that all couples have a right to marry, can we now have a right to be single? But don’t we have that already? Surely, no one is forcing single people to get married. But the right to be single is...
View ArticleUnmarried Americans as Home Buyers and Home Creators
Want to know who buys homes in the U.S. and why? If so, you will need to look way past people who are married, who are now just one of the many categories of people buying a home and making a home. In...
View ArticleUnmarried Status Is a Diversity Issue
Get married, have kids, stay married. That’s the script for how adult lives are supposed to unfold. Never mind that in the U.S., the script maps onto the real lives of fewer and fewer people all the...
View ArticleHow the Washington Post (Almost) Published a Week of Respectful Articles...
In the week leading up to Valentine’s Day, the “In Theory” blog at the Washington Post published a series on Singlehood in America. The editors initially invited six experts and scholars to contribute....
View ArticleBeyond the Nuclear Family: New Policies and Practices Are Needed for the Way...
We are living in a time of unprecedented possibilities for how to live. Nuclear family households may still be sentimental favorites in popular culture, but in real life, they are in the distinct...
View ArticleWhy Is Marriage Still So Glorified When So Many People Are Not Married?
It is a paradox of contemporary life in the U.S. and in other nations around the world: More people than ever before are not married, and yet, in so many ways, marriage still rules. Marriage retains a...
View ArticleJournalists and Social Scientists Glorify Married People. Will We All Look...
It is open season on people who are not married. It always has been. Our lives are inferior, we are told, over and over again. What’s more, the reporters and moralizers and others telling us our lives...
View ArticleThe Subversive Implication of Same-Sex Marriage that No One Predicted
Marrying a platonic friend for financial and practical benefits can be a deliciously subversive individual act, but for social justice writ large, we need more. As the moral panic over the legalization...
View ArticleWe the Unmarried: Universities Just Aren’t into Us, and That Needs to Change
Colleges and universities are powerhouses of critical thinking. They set agendas. They influence generations of students. And they are not just ivory towers. What happens in universities does not stay...
View ArticleHow the Important People in the Lives of Unmarried Americans Are Shortchanged
The stereotyping, stigmatizing, and marginalizing of unmarried Americans is not just about us. It also extends to all of the important people in our lives, especially if they are not romantic partners....
View ArticleHow Unmarried Americans Fare as Home Buyers: Single Women, Single Men, and...
To many Americans, home ownership is an essential component of the American dream. But how often do unmarried Americans get to (or choose to) share in that dream? What do they want when they look for a...
View ArticleWhat Unmarried Americans Want
Recently, I posted this question at the Facebook pages for Unmarried Equality and the Community of Single People: “If you could change just one law or policy to make things better for unmarried/single...
View ArticleHow to Make Things Better for Unmarried Americans – with No Help Forthcoming...
In my last column, “What unmarried Americans want,” I shared people’s answers to the question, “If you could change just one law or policy to make things better for unmarried/single Americans, what...
View ArticleBanning Adults without Children from Playgrounds: Disturbing Implications...
If you are an adult and you don’t have a kid with you, a Los Angeles city councilman wants to ban you from entering playgrounds. Los Angeles is not the sole offender; in some other major cities,...
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