If you're a woman in your 20s, being single may feel like an empowering lifestyle choice. Taking smug delight in the recent ...

A while back, we wrote a post where older adults who chose to stay single shared what their lives are actually like. Their responses were incredibly eye-opening, and in the comments, older women who ...

From going "boy sober" to "decentering men," discourse about young women rejecting the traditional path of marriage and motherhood has swept social media. As birth and marriage rates decline, more and ...

Women have certainly come a long way — no longer feeling the need to put a ring on it due to social or cultural pressures. It turns out, US women are ditching the traditional idea of marriage — and ...

Is it really true that single women are happier than single men? The figures say they are and the reasons why this disparity is opening up are provoking some very serious arguments about what it is to ...

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DEAR ABBY: I am a single, 52-year-old woman, never married with no kids. I suffer from depression as well as a number of severe health issues and live alone with three cats. Lately, I've been feeling ...

A single, childfree woman has hit back at the suggestion people like her should be a constant source of support to mothers facing the challenge of parenthood. The number of U.S. adults under the age ...