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Living Alone: What Are the Consequences of Going Solo?
Remember when living alone carried something of a stigma? Well, according to the latest census , those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950.
By Judy Muller • • 1 min readRemember when living alone carried something of a stigma? Well, according to the latest census, those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950. Are all these "singletons," as they're called, happy and healthy, or lonely and isolated?
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The full episode
2 of 3Alone in America- 0:00Double Agent Foils Bombing Plot
- 7:36Living Alone: What Are the Consequences of Going Solo?You’re reading this
- 39:04Troubling Signs for Both Parties in Yesterday's Elections