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The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine. Con
The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine. Con
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2022-02-03
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The extraordinary rise of living alone is the biggest social change that we’ve neglected to identify, let alone examine.
Consider that in 1950, a mere 4 million Americans lived alone, making up only 9% of households. Back then, living alone was most common in the Western states that attracted seasonal workingmen, and it was usually a short-lived stage on the road to a more conventional domestic life.
Not anymore. According to the latest data, nearly 33 million Americans live alone, making up 28% of households, which means they are now tied with childless couples as the most important type, more common than the nuclear family, the multi generational family and the roommate or group home. These aren’t just temporary living situations: over a five-year period, people who live alone are more likely to remain in their current state than anyone else except married couples with children. They’re concentrated in big cities throughout the country.
Living alone, being alone and feeling lonely are hardly the same, yet in recent years experts have mixed them up, raising fears that the rise of living alone signals the ultimate atomization of the modern world. In fact, there’s little evidence that the rise of living alone is making more Americans lonely. According to the latest studies, what matters is not whether we live alone but whether we feel alone. Divorced people often say there’s nothing lonelier than living with the wrong person. Besides, people living alone compensate by becoming more socially active than those who live with others.
The truth is, today nearly everyone who lives alone chooses to do so, despite less expensive options from finding roommates to living with family.
After all, living alone allows us to do what we want, when we want, on our own terms. It liberates us from the restrictions of domestic partner’s needs and demands. Today, in our age of digital media and ever expanding social networks, living alone can offer even greater benefits: the time and space for the healing power of aloneness.
This means that living alone can help us discover who we are and what gives us meaning and purpose. It might be exactly what we need to reconnect.
According to the latest studies, people living alone may________.
选项
A、be a burden on society
B、feel lonelier than others
C、come from split families
D、engage in social activities
答案
D
解析
推断题。文章第四段第三句至最后一句提到,根据最新的研究,重要的不是我们是否独自生活,而是我们是否感到孤独。离婚的人常说,没有什么比和错误的人生活在一起感到更孤独的了。此外,独自生活的人会比与他人一起生活的人更积极地参与社会活动,以此来弥补自己的不足。由此可知,独居的人会参加社交活动。故选D。
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