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In America about 100 million people, nearly half of all adults, are unmarried, according to the Census Bureau — Tara Pope-Parker argues that singles struggle for attention – they tend to be overlooked by policies that favor married couples, from family-leave laws to lower insurance rates.
There is this push for marriage in the straight community and in the gay community, essentially assuming that if you are not married there is something wrong with you, according to Naomi Gerstel, a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who has published a number of papers comparing the married and unmarried.
Read Tara Pope Parker’s column in the New York Times
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Tara Parker-Pope is the creator and writer of “Well,” a daily health blog and weekly column for The New York Times. Prior to joining the Times in August 2007, Tara was the long-time health columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and also worked as a correspondent in the paper’s London bureau.
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