Singled Out

Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living


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I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

Do Relationships Need Lies to Survive?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living


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I draw a big line between little lies and big ones. Serious lies -- the big time betrayals of trust -- are probably never good for relationships of any kind. Little lies are often a different matter entirely.

Marriage and Health: Et Tu, New York Times?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living


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I am disappointed with the recent Times article that claims that married people tend to be healthier than single people. Here's why the piece is misleading.

Newsweek's Misleading Account of Latest Marriage Study

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living


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A new day has dawned, and with it another study of marriage misrepresented in the media: as always, implying that getting married results in better outcomes than it actually does.

Marital Mentality #2: The More Profound Historic Change

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living


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Why should you have to be any kind of a couple to have access to basic rights, protections, dignity, and respect?

Marital Mentalities: The Changes are Historic, and We're Living Them

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living


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There's a lot of matrimania going on but I suspect that's not a sign of how secure we are about the place of marriage in our lives, but how insecure.

"Avoid Marriage," Advises Atlantic Writer

Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living


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Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.

For the Love of Blogging

Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media


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When I first started blogging, I never imagined it would become one of my favorite things to do.

More about Sonia Sotomayor, From Someone Who Knew Her at Yale

Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


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Rachel Moran: "The stigma of singledom seems to have disappeared when it comes to qualifying for high office, both for men like David Souter and women like Sonia Sotomayor."

USA Today Reporter Responds to Blog Post

Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media


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Promoting Marriage-Promotion with Dubious Scientific Claims: USA Today's Feature Story

Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


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USA Today is very excited about marriage. Splashed across the front page of the Health and Behavior section, set off by a colorful illustration, was t...

Get Married, Live Longer? It's a Myth

Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.13.2009 | Living


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When the authors of The Case claimed that getting married saved men's lives, they did so by acting as if the men who got divorced or widowed did not actually get married.

The Unmarried Electorate: 60% Obama, 33% McCain

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics


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But where is the love? When was the last time you heard about this demographic juggernaut on Morning Joe? Where are the network stories or the feature articles in newspapers or magazines?

What's With the Cat, and Other Questions about Singles and Their Pets

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living


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One time, a publication that interviewed me about Singled Out sent someone to take a picture of me at home. The photographer asked what my book was ab...

It's Singles Week - Someone Tell Newsweek There Are 100 Million of Us and We Vote

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media


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This week, September 21-27, is National Singles Week. If you think it is unnecessary to do a bit of consciousness-raising about people who are single ...

Like Your Time Alone? Then This Post is For You

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living


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I live in the most ordinary American household - I live alone. Knock on any door in the nation and you are more likely to find a household like mine t...

True or False: Married People Healthiest, but Singles Catching Up

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.15.2008 | Living


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Even allowing for the approach that makes marriage look better than it really is, the differences in health between the currently-married and the always-single are tiny.

BBC Claims Singles Are at Risk for Alzheimer's; I Think the BBC is Losing Its Mind

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media


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With no reliable differences in the rate of Alzheimer's between the married and the single people, the BBC should not have heralded the "findings" in a headline.