Study: Americans getting lonelier and lonelier and lonelier

[L A Woman]

How depressing. I'm one of those "one-person households." I'm starting to get nervous! :scared:


Lonely nation

Americans try to connect in a country where isolation is common
Sunday, August 6, 2006; Posted: 6:38 p.m. EDT (22:38 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- In bleak nursing homes and vibrant college dorms, in crowded cities and spread-out suburbs, Americans confront an ailment with no single cause or cure.

Some call it social isolation or disconnectedness. Often, it's just plain loneliness.

An age-old ailment, to be sure, and yet by various measures -- census figures on one-person households, a new study documenting Americans' shrinking circle of intimate friends -- it is worsening.

It seems ironic, even to those who are affected. The nation has never been more populous, soon to reach the 300 million mark. And it has never been more connected -- by phone, e-mail, instant message, text message, and on and on.

Yet so many are alone in the crowd.

More....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/31/lonely.nation.ap/index.html

[Deja Q]

1. Maybe the compassionate conservatives will give me what I want.

[MoseyWalker]

2. Depends on how one

looks at alone-ness and connectedness.

It's a paradigm shift happening, and it just takes some people a bit of time to catch up. I feel sorry for the writer, the researchers, and the mice who watched the experiment.

[Deja Q]

3. I feel sorry for the people being watched too.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Say, you're in LA

Drive on up to SB and join XemaSab, my family and me for dinner. We're having bun (Vietnamese noodle salad).

[Skittles]

5. I guess I must be lucky

I've live alone and I have NEVER felt lonely

[rug]

6. They have to start polling people besides HypnoToad.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. See, that's what I'm afraid of.

On one hand, I really don't want to have kids, but on another hand, if I don't, who's going to take care of me when I'm old? It's a quandry of the worst kind.
Duckie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear YellowRubberDuckie..........

That would be the worst possible reason ever to have a child.......:scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. Oh sweetie, I know...

I want to be a foster parent later on down the road to give some kids homes who wouldn't otherwise. I'm just talking out of my ass right now.
Duckie