UnMarried America - 1 views
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Christine Cruz on 10 Dec 11From Unmarried America: "Unmarried America is an information service for America's 106 million unmarried adults -- who head up a majority of the nation's households. Our services focus on your interests as employees, consumers, taxpayers, and voters, regardless of your household size or family structure. You will not find a more comprehensive or reliable source of information about this special population anywhere on the Internet. Unmarried America is a function of Spectrum Institute, a nonprofit corporation with federal tax exempt status." The intended audience of Unmarried America is basically anyone who is not married. This can included single individuals with or without children, gay couples, straight unmarried couples, single adults who live at home, etc. This website says it is targeted towards a special class of citizens, the unmarried. While I appreciate their attempt to keep the category broad and not to discriminate against anyone (except for married folks), their focus ends up being so broad as to not be of much benefit to anyone. Everyone who isn't married isn't really specific enough to constitute a "special population." The website is run by the Spectrum Institute which they state is a registered nonprofit. They do not provide any further information about their registered nonprofit regarding what its goals are, how they are funded, or what they have accomplished. They hint at advocating for the interests of unmarried individuals, but I found no evidence of any actual research or activities on their part. At its root, Unmarried America appears to be four people with an opinion that re-blog news stories.
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Adam Towne on 10 Dec 11A large part of their website appears to be broken for me, many things that looks like they should be links are either plain text or broken. I was able to read through several parts of the site though, and it is interesting. I do believe that the site slightly mispresents itself. They seem to be focused on equal rights for everyone, including things like homosexual marriage, and ending discrimination.
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Josh Kruger on 11 Dec 11Christine, sounds like a lot of us are having the same issues with a lack of credentials on sites. You have to wonder if at least some of this is perhaps intentional. Sounds like an odd organization to me, and I think your opinion about it "their focus ends up being so broad as to not be of much benefit to anyone" is spot on. Really sounds like a 'what organization can we start that a huge number of people will automatically fall into and likely donate'? Seems completely unnecessary to me. As to the website problems - it's always a prudent idea to check your webmaster's final product (especially if he's not actually your employee) because they could easily put up something minimal and take the money and run. However, I will say that people who choose to not be married could be a different demographic deserving their own group. Just doesn't make sense to have it so broad like you point out. Also very ironic that it appears to only have four members in whatever respect you were referencing. Sounds very sketchy.