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According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are 1,138 statutory provisions [1] in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges. These rights were a key issue in the debate over federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
According to the United States Bureau of the Census, the fastest-growing household type since the 1980s has been the single person.Previously both socially uncommon and unaccepted due to perceived roles, public awareness, modern socioeconomic factors, and increasingly available popular and lengthier education and careers have made the single lifestyle a viable option for many Americans ...
Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852. New Jersey: Married women are granted separate economy. [11] Indiana: Married women are given the right to own (but not control) property in their own name. [4]
A 2023 Pew Research Center survey using 2022 census data found that single women owned 58 percent of the nearly 35.2 million homes owned by unmarried Americans, while single men owned 42 percent ...
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In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 4.85 million cohabiting couples, up more than ten times from 1960, when there were 439,000 such couples. The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth found that more than half of all women aged 15 to 44 have lived with an unmarried partner, and that 65% of American couples who did cohabit got married within 5 years.
Single women are more worried about living paycheck-to-paycheck than anyone else. Being single is so expensive that women’s financial confidence plummets if they’re unmarried, survey says Skip ...
As part of the marriage gap, unmarried people are "considerably more liberal" than married people. [1] [failed verification] With little variation between professed moderates, married people respond to be conservative 9 percent more, and single people respond to be liberal 10 percent more.