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Do unmarried Americans need a week to "celebrate" their single status, similar to Black History Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Secretary's Day? Well it seems like the answer is "yes," according to Unmarried America, "a website providing an information service for the new unmarried majority. . . unmarried workers, consumers, taxpayers, and voters." They created National Unmarried and Single Americans Week aka National USA Week. Designed to celebrate the lives and contributions of unmarried and single Americans from September 17th to 23rd, so "During Singles Week we want the general public to know that 89 million unmarried Americans -- and we now head up more than half of the nation's households -- deserve equal rights and fairness as workers, consumers, and taxpayers. We also want politicians and political parties to pay more attention to us as voters. That is more likely to happen if unmarried Americans speak out and spread this message." The website is filled with lots of facts and figures, one of the more interesting stated that 55.9 million
households in 2005 -- now a majority of all households in the nation -- are headed by unmarried adults. While I can see how these collective numbers can theoretically carry voting power, I think that the inherent differences among never married, divorced and widowed singles would make it difficult to target them as a group. Add into the equation their geographical location, and I'm not so sure that their social and political needs can be easily defined, let alone met. However, if you're single and not a secretary, mother, father, Black American, or breast cancer survivor and looking to be celebrated, it looks like this is your week! Congrats!
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