No?  Me neither, but then Christina, over at Solomother clued me in with her post, It’s National Singles Week… how will you celebrate yourself?  

Unsure what National Singles Week is?  Well as explained by the SFGate in Celebrating the single-minded life;

There are 92 million unmarried Americans, and this is their week.

Since the 1980s, the third full week of September has been National Singles Week. Started by Ohio’s Buckeye Singles Council as a way to recognize the role singles play in society, it is now known as National Unmarried and Single Americans Week. According to the U.S. census, the adjusted name acknowledges that many unmarried Americans do not identify with the word “single” because they have partners or are widowed.

Part of the focus of National Singles Week is to change negative stereotypes about singles.  The article at SFGate mentions rights for unmarried life partners, health insurance, voting and public policies – a different view than the idea that people are unmarried by default, because they can’t find someone to couple up with. 

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National Unmarried and Singles Week