Single-mother families make up one in five American families with children under 18. I grew up in one of them. Solo parenting is no easy feat. Even though my Philadelphia childhood was filled with ...
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 ...
It has long been understood that being single is more expensive, but that narrative is shifting. It’s not that it’s getting any cheaper to live on one income, but there’s a generational shift in ...
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, ...
It’s easy to look around and be convinced that nearly everyone is in a relationship. However, according to the Pew Research Center, 35% of adults who have never been married also said they have never ...
Single adults are plagued by stereotypes. As a lifelong single, I’ve experienced most of them: I have too much free time. I have too much discretionary income. I am emotionally broken. I am ...
When teaching classes on education policy, I usually begin with a joke about people’s reaction to finding out that I got my Ph.D. in it. If I had instead studied biology or history, I posit, I imagine ...
The creation of this article included the use of AI and was edited by human content creators. Read more on our AI policy here. Single’s Inferno is one Korea’s longest-running reality dating shows, and ...
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 ...