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 ...

For years, single men who were first-time homebuyers had higher annual income than their female counterparts, according to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Being single is more than just an empty window of time between two relationships. When used correctly, it can forge the unshakeable self-love. Most people treat singlehood as a waiting room. It’s seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are Catholic, one might recognize that the three Church-designated vocation callings are — religious life, marriage, and being single. However, within the Catholic community discourse, one ...

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 ...