(The Hill) – Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high.
Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are living alone for the first time in recorded history.
“It’s just a stunning social change,” said Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book “Going Solo.” “I came to see it as the biggest demographic change in the last century that we failed to recognize and take seriously.”
Homo sapiens is a social animal. Historians tapped ancient census rolls to show that our species has lived in groups for as long as such records have existed, stretching back at least to 1600.
The U.S. Census shows that “solitaries” made up 8 percent of all households in 1940. The share of solo households doubled to 18 percent in 1970 and more than tripled, to an estimated 29 percent, by 2022.
Divorces did that !!!!
Exactly 8:21 – Guys are smart enough to remain single/alone – The minute you get married, you legally give away half of everything you own. Girls are complaining that guys don’t want to tie the knot, but given the number of divorce horror stories and how guys get slaughtered (some justified I’m sure, but a great many are not) why in the world would any guy want to get married?
Sorry girls, it’s just not worth it for us.
When You are Single You can Mingle & Your Pockets will Jingle !!!!! $$$$
The norm then is coming home alone.
Thats not fun – especially via divorce.
Being alone and being lonely are two different things.