The number of singletons is increasing, yet people still insist on telling them they’ll find a partner soon. What’s with all the pity? As 2022 comes to a close, we're bringing back our favourite ...

In Jessica Francis Kane’s novel, Rules for Visiting Friends, the main character, May, is 40 and has always been single. She decides to invite herself to stay for days at a time with each of several ...

Being single isn’t always a walk in the park—especially when movies and television shows seem to push the concept that you aren’t truly “complete” until you’ve found a significant other. People’s ...

DePaulo is a leading expert on single life, and is the author of Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life. She has been writing the “Living Single” blog for Psychology ...

Roughly 24 million, or one-third of all American children under age 18, are living with an unmarried parent, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. And 81% of those ...

Bella DePaulo received funding from the Marchionne Foundation in 2002-2003. She writes a blog for Unmarried Equality and is a member of the Council on Contemporary Families. The 21st century is the ...

With nearly two decades in journalism, Dori Zinn has covered loans and other personal finance topics for the better part of her career. She loves helping people learn about money, whether that’s ...

Being a single parent is tough — there’s no debate there. But better understanding the challenges faced by solo parents can help us to offer better support to the many who find themselves taking on ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

Every investor looks for assets that can generate returns and align with their financial goals. While most stock investors interpret that as picking individual stocks or exchange-traded funds, there ...