When I was single (majority of my adult life) I never felt I was denied something what married people had. I never felt that I am being treated differently or discriminated against. My first marriage didn't work out ( we ddd an awesome job co parenting though and my daughter is a well adjusted adult). Then I was single. Then I was in relationships. Then I was single. Now I am married second time.

Bottom line I have experience of a single woman, divorce woman, married woman and I lived on two continents. I never felt pressure to neither marry nor stay in marriage nor divorce nor remarry. All was my choice.

I can't really think of one thing that was denied to me by a society when I was single. I really don't know. Now I could see how people in long term common law type of arrangement could complain that they are denied something. But what are single people denied? Maybe there is something, I just managed not to get bothered. I just live my life