Unmarried are invisible, forgotten

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63. Bella DePaolo's blog

At Psychology Today is one I've read for years.

She has this article - 11 Meaningful Facts About Single People. When you go to her blog - you'll find links with data supporting each of the 11 facts.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201302/more-sex-11-meaningful-facts-about-single-people

When you go to her blog - click on each of the 11 facts I've excerpted below and that will take you to the back up data.

Real single people live bigger, more interesting, and more meaningful lives than those very circumscribed topics would suggest. So here, in tribute to the real lives of single people, are 10 meaningful things you might want to know about them. Click the links and you can read more about each finding, including appropriate qualifications.

1 Singles value meaningful work, and always have

2 Single people have a more diverse set of confidants than married people do

3 Women who get married get fatter. (Men probably do, too.)

4 Single men have good hearts

5 People who stay single exercise more than married or once-married people do

6 For single people (but not married ones), greater self-sufficiency means fewer negative feelings

7 Married people exchange much less help with their parents and parents-in-law combined than single people do with just their parents. It is the single people who are there for mom and dad.

8 Single people are more likely than married people to have regularly looked after someone who was sick or disabled or elderly, for at least three months

9 Single people are “more likely to spend time with friends and neighbors than people who are married, and…more likely to volunteer in civic organizations.”

10 You know all those things that supposedly go wrong in the lives of the children of single parents? In each of these examples of presumably bad outcomes, the vast majority of the children of single parents are doing just fine.

11 Think there is a marriage penalty? Actually, it is a singles penalty. Single people are subsidizing the breaks married people get in domains such as taxes, health spending, housing, and Social Security