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WesternPilgrim can I ask you a question? Why do you make so many threads concerning others' personal lives? Why are you so concerned with how people live, when it doesn't affect you in any way?
Because how other people live affects my children, family, neighbors and friends.
What the heck does the government have to do with this? Why is someone who lives alone loveless? What government fix are you talking about here? Who is demanding that the government do this fix. You're not making a ton of sense here.
Let's start with the desire to live without the burden of loving children. People who want the freedom of living without children still conceive babies. Some of those babies are aborted with government money. Some of them are given up for adoption through government agencies. Some of them must be raised by single mothers who need public assistance. And now these same people want their contraception paid for by government edict. Etc.
This is one reason why housing is so unaffordable for so many. There is not nearly enough single-person housing units to meet demand, because builders keep producing family homes.
This is one reason why housing is so unaffordable for so many. There is not nearly enough single-person housing units to meet demand, because builders keep producing family homes.
For singles, yes.
On the other side of it, with fewer families to match those family homes, their prices have collapsed and will continue to collapse.
"More people live alone now than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities — Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis — 40 percent or more of all households contain a single occupant. In Manhattan and in Washington, nearly one in two households are occupied by a single person. Today five million people in the United States between ages 18 and 34 live alone, 10 times more than in 1950. But the largest number of single people are middle-aged; 15 million people between ages 35 and 64 live alone."
How is this not a social disaster in the making? Don't get me wrong: there is nothing inherently immoral or evil about being single or living alone. There have always been those called to the single life and there always will be. The problem is that society cannot handle certain exceptions becoming the rule. When people are living alone due to an absence of love and commitment in their lives, whether chosen or unchosen, we have a problem.
Apparently that's how it will end - in a loveless society, in which the masses demand that government accommodate our loveless lives, and that government "fix" what love has neglected. Furthermore it will be demanded that government remove any visible reminders of what love ought to have done to avoid pricking our dying consciences.
Why on earth would you assume that these people are not loved and/or don't love others?
Or that they don't have strong relationships or attachments to others?
Are you honestly suggesting that an incompatible marriage or marriages of convenience are better for society than happily single people?
Also - too many people choosing to live alone creates an environment which compels others to live alone, perpetuating the cycle.
How does it compell anyone to live alone? And what is wrong with making socially acceptable an option many who choose for themselves have been discourage of?
If you want roomates, you can find them. If you want a relationship, you can look. Nothing whatsoever stops that. But we have this nagging judgement that if your not among the social beings, there must be something wrong with you. This is what is implied. Personally I fell good about not being one since I'd be way more worse off needing to have bodies around me to feel good about myself.
We're all made different, and we can pick how we want to define 'home'.
Let's start with the desire to live without the burden of loving children. People who want the freedom of living without children still conceive babies. Some of those babies are aborted with government money. Some of them are given up for adoption through government agencies. Some of them must be raised by single mothers who need public assistance. And now these same people want their contraception paid for by government edict. Etc.
I should add that those babies born to single mothers are more likely themselves to require public services due to the problems in their lives created by fatherlessness. A vicious cycle.
How odd...in my area, there have been reports of more people taking on boarders and roommates and adults living with their parents in the past few years.
Let's start with the desire to live without the burden of loving children. People who want the freedom of living without children still conceive babies. Some of those babies are aborted with government money. Some of them are given up for adoption through government agencies. Some of them must be raised by single mothers who need public assistance. And now these same people want their contraception paid for by government edict. Etc.
You will recall that your OP stated that largest group of people living alone are middle-aged. Let's suppose that all things being 'normal,' some large number of those people have already raised their children and are 'empty-nesters.'
What does that mean for your thesis?
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