diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f89fdc8..af1aae6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Unreleased
 - dropped support for Python 2.6, 3.3
 - fixed support for Python 3.6 ([#57](https://github.com/stchris/untangle/pull/57))
 - formatted code with black
+- support Element truthiness on Python 3 ([#68](https://github.com/stchris/untangle/pull/68/))
 - `main` is now the default branch
 - switch to Github Actions
 - switch to poetry and pytest
diff --git a/tests/test_untangle.py b/tests/test_untangle.py
index 69ef820..8d279d7 100755
--- a/tests/test_untangle.py
+++ b/tests/test_untangle.py
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ def test_basic_with_decl(self):
         self.assertTrue("c" in o.a)
         self.assertTrue("d" not in o.a)
 
+    def test_truthiness(self):
+        o = untangle.parse("<a><b/><c/></a>")
+        self.assertTrue(o)
+        self.assertTrue(o.a)
+        self.assertTrue(o.a.b)
+        self.assertTrue(o.a.c)
+
     def test_with_attributes(self):
         o = untangle.parse(
             """
diff --git a/untangle.py b/untangle.py
index a4a85fe..c608b32 100755
--- a/untangle.py
+++ b/untangle.py
@@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ def __repr__(self):
             self.cdata,
         )
 
-    def __nonzero__(self):
+    def __bool__(self):
         return self.is_root or self._name is not None
 
+    __nonzero__ = __bool__
+
     def __eq__(self, val):
         return self.cdata == val