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Thursday, November 30, 2000

• Dr. Karen Gail Lewis, author of "With or Without a Man: Single Women Taking Control of Their Lives," has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Book Authors who are honorary members.

Tuesday, November 28, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with one story for November 21, one for November 22 and one for November 23.

• Conrado Terrazas, candidate for Los Angeles City Council, has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Honorary Members.

Tuesday, November 21, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with a story for today about the Southern California ACLU writing to each ACLU affiliate in all other states, encouraging them to work with AASP and support its campaigns.  Stories were also added for November 19 and 20.

• Robyn Todd, author of "How to Survive Your Boyfriend's Divorce" has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Book Authors who are honorary members.

Monday, November 20, 2000

• "Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women without Children," by Terri Casey, has been added to the Book Release section of our site.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for November 16.

• "Single People in Great Britain"  has been added as a new page on our website.  The page contains links to a set of stories published by the London Guardian in the November 5 issue of the "Observer" which is the paper's Sunday Magazine section.  That entire edition of the Observer was called "The Singles Issue" and contained more than a dozen articles about various aspects of the lives of single and unmarried adults in Britain.

• Recent News has been updated with three stories for November 17, including the summary of a commentary by William F. Buckley Jr. about the GOP rethinking its relationship with unmarried women (a crucial voting block in the most recent presidential election).

Friday, November 17, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for November 14, one for November 16 and one for November 17, 2000.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for November 14, 2000.

Thursday, November 16, 2000

• "2000 Presidential Election - Marital Status & Gender: Los Angeles Times National Exit Poll" has been added to the site.  This page shows how the following sub-groups voted in the presidential election: married men, single men, married women, single women.

• Recent News has been updated with a story for today about a Wednesday-Saturday event called "Thanksgiving for Single People" held at the Rowe Center in a most beautiful place in northwestern Massachusetts.  This tip was provided by one of our new members.

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

• "2000 Elections - Marital Status Patterns of National Exit Polls" has been added as a new section to the site.  These pages show which candidates that married voters and unmarried voters cast ballots for, including a national sample as well as samples from several states. 

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for November 13 and two for November 10.

• Domestic Partner Information has been updated with a link to an article detailing which states are giving domestic partner benefits to state employees, including details as to whether the plan is for same-sex couples only or for all domestic partners regardless of gender, and which plans include medical and dental or only sick or bereavement leave.

• Recent News has been updated with a story for November 8 in which some researchers predict that the United States may eventually become a "post marriage society" and a story for November 2 which reports that in the near future more than one third of the British will never marry.  Another story was added for November 14 about sex police in Brunei who raid hotels looking for unmarried couples to arrest.

Friday, November 10, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with two stories for November 9, 2000 -- one reporting a ban on domestic partnership rights in Nebraska and the other dicussing the popularity of a new domestic partnership law in France.  Two stories for November 3, 2000, have also been added.  One is about a study concerning coparenting by same-sex couples, and the other is about a tax ruling by the California Franchise Tax Board allowing a lesbian co-parent to file as head of household based on the dependent status of the biological child of her partner.

• Recent News has been updated with a story for November 6 about a new study predicting an increase in births to unmarried parents in future years, and a story for November 7 about a trend of single people moving bak to downtown urban areas.  A story for November 8 talks about how to help children of divorce during the holiday season.

Monday, November 6, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with a story for today about George W. Bush and Al Gore being questioned yesterday by the Associated Press about single people.  The site has also been updated with two stories for November 1 -- one about the difficulties of divorced couples working together in the same workplace and another about single women doing more self nurturing than married women -- and one article for November 3 about a bishop recommending the establishment of a religious ceremony for divorcing couples.

• A special section on The Youth Debate has been added to the National Advertising Section of our site which focuses on single and unmarried voters being ignored by the presidential candidates.  In the Youth Debate, sponsored by Salon.com, AASP member Deroy Murdock, asked Al Gore and George W. Bush why they have neglected to speak to single people. 

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for October 20 about an unmarried co-parent gaining the right to sue for visitation of her partner's biological child.   Domestic partner news archives has been updated with a story for October 1 about Universal Studios in Florida granting benefits to same-sex and opposite-sex unmarried partners of its employees.  US News archives has been updated with a story about singles in Britain being happy with their unmarried status.

• The domestic partner information pages have been updated with a link to an excellent article about health benefits for domestic partners in the workplace.

• "Letters Received" section of our site has been updated with a letter from a woman in Sun City, California, who thinks that single workers would be better off with personal retirement accounts than with the current social security system where single workers are subsidizing benefits for spouses of married workers.

• A new book entitled "How to Survive Your Boyfriend's Divorce" has been added to the new Book Release section of our site.

Saturday, November 4, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with an advisory that AASP's executive director Thomas F. Coleman will appear on CNN cable news today between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m (eastern time) on both CNN News and CNN Headline News.   Coleman's interview focuses on the presidential candidates ignoring single and unmarried voters.

• Several new letters, mostly in reaction to our national advertising campaign, have been added to the "Letters Received" section of our site.

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for October 31 -- one about an academic conference at Pennsylvania State University focusing on unmarried cohabitation and another about a court ruling imposing liability for failure to disclose one's herpes status to an unmarried sex partner -- as well as other stories for October 27 and November 2, 2000.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for October 31 and one for November 2, 2000.

Friday, November 3, 2000

• As a part of our National Advertising Campaign to single and unmarried voters, a full page ad appeared in this weeks issue of the Orange County Weekly, the City Pages of Minneapolis, and the Cleveland Scene.

Thursday, November 2, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with information from a Census Bureau report released yesterday about "The Black Population in the United States" compiled from the 1999 Current Population Survey.

• Information about a like-minded organization, the Alternatives to Marriage Project, has been added to our website.  In the coming weeks we will add information about other organizations and resources of interest to unmarried adults, couples, parents, and families.

• A new book entitled "Divorce: The Best Resources to Help You Survive," has been added to the new Book Release section of our site.

• We have added to the site the text of a letter from the ACLU of Southern California to several judicial associations endorsing our Stop the Stigma Campaign.

Wednesday, November 1, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with an article about the appearance of AASP's executive director on the Mark Roberts Show at WERC in Birmingham, Alabama.  A ten minute segment of the show discussed the presidential candidates ignoring single and unmarried voters.

• The ACLU of Southern California has sent a letter to three judicial associations endorsing our Stop the Stigma Campaign.  Affiliate president Stephen Rohde sent the letters to the American Judges Association, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Council of Chief Judges of Courts of Appeal.  The full text of the letter will be posted on our website next week.

What's New -- October 2000