For the First Time in My Lifetime, Signs of Real Progress for Single People

Scholars and journalists are taking single people seriously. Advocacy, though, is lagging behind.

Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave
Published in
7 min readDec 21, 2022

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Getting single people and single life taken seriously should not be a hard sell. In the U.S., nearly half of all adults 18 and older are not married. On the average, Americans…

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Bella DePaulo
Fourth Wave

“America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience,” according to the Atlantic. Author of “Singled Out.” Harvard PhD www.belladepaulo.com