Psychology Today

The Community of Single People is a Facebook group for people who want to discuss every aspect of single life except dating and trying to become unsingle. We needed it.

Single people should have the right to be single that is equivalent to the right to be married. But they don't. Not even close.

In this guest post, sociologist Joshua Gamson takes a look at the beautifully produced Tylenol ads celebrating family diversity, and explores what's missing or hidden.

A wildly popular article identified 10 signs that you are perfectly happy with solitude. Most of them were spot-on. But the author got it wrong about the kinds of people focused primarily on fulfilling their own needs.

At the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, 5 "experts" were asked a stunningly stupid and offensive question. They all answered it without protest. Not one of them seemed to realize that there was anything wrong with it.

In some significant ways, over the past three-quarters of a century, couples have been acting more like single people.

At a time when there are more than 100 million single people just in the US, there are still people denying that any of them could be truly happy. Research shows that people get angry at single people who choose to be single. What's that about?

National Unmarried and Single Americans Week, recognized by the Census Bureau for more than a decade, is a celebration of single people and a way of recognizing their contributions as friends, family members, workers, voters, volunteers, neighbors, and community members.

Who is most likely to maintain social ties with parents, siblings, friends, and neighbors? Who is likely to help those people and receive help from them? Is it married people? Previously married people? People who have always been single? The answer is always the same, and it comes from nationally representative surveys.

What if you are married with kids, but you don't consider your spouse the most important person in your life? How can you arrange your life to honor the people you care about most, and also maintain the important place of both parents in the lives of the kids?

An article about American snacking put the blame for bad eating habits on "lonely single people." Just about every single thing that was stated or implied about single people in that article was unsubstantiated, misleading, egregiously derogatory, or just plain wrong.

After decades in which living single has been stereotyped and stigmatized, is it now becoming something that even couples want a piece of?

Here are 10 stereotype-defying scientifically-based facts about the children of single parents. Sometimes they do even better than the children of married parents. How is that possible?

A huge proportion of Americans want to have at least some time when they are completely alone, away from everyone else. But what about the small minority? Are there really people who want no time at all to be completely on their own?