Found this on the back page of a Boston Globe supplement about "things you can do to help the planet" that was in the burn pile the other day.

This woman has a fabulous tongue-in-cheek style, and mostly addresses the way we respond to news that we really want to believe and the rationalizations we make around that, in this case the assertion put forward is that unmarried folk do more to strengthen communities because they have more open social networks.
( Single Rules - Why the unmarried are the real do-gooders of the world )

(Original panel paper - Marriage Reduces Social Ties Discussion Paper for Council on Contemporary Families--1/2/2007)