Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
Why should you have to be any kind of a couple to have access to basic rights, protections, dignity, and respect?
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
When I first started blogging, I never imagined it would become one of my favorite things to do.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
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."
Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media
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Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
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...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.13.2009 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
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?
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living
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...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media
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 ...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.21.2008 | Living
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...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.15.2008 | Living
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media
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.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living