SINGLE AND NOT READY TO MINGLE

The Pew Research Center last Tuesday released a new study that further confirmed the financial benefits of being married and the challenges of being single in the U.S. despite the increase of the single population over the past 30 years.
The Associated Press, citing the study, reported that about 28 percent of the single population in their prime working years—from 25 to 54—are currently living with their parents compared to just 2 percent of married couples or those with a partner. These single individuals also tend to have health disadvantages and are “more likely to engage in risky behavior such as binge drinking,” Richard Fry, a senior economist at Pew, said, according to the report.
Fry called single adults an “at-risk population.”
The report said that there has been a 30-year slide in marriages, dropping from two-thirds of the population in 1990 to just over half in 2019. The growth has been attributed to those who never got married, not divorced couples or widows. The increase is most apparent in the male population, which jumped 39 percent, the report said.
Psychology Today looked at the issue of being single and how recent news reports on the disadvantages has led to a “torrent of singlism,” which is the stereotyping and stigmatizing of single people.
“Discussions of the growing numbers of single men living with their parents start from the assumption that the parents are supporting their grown children. And sometimes they are,” Dr. Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist, wrote in the magazine. “It is also true, though, that single people—including single men—are more likely than married people to provide care when their aging parents need it. That’s true of Black sons and daughters as well as White ones.”
TREND FORECAST: With the COVID War now heading into its second year, and reports of how singles are struggling to meet and are also afraid of interacting to such a degree that they are being idiotically told when and how to have intimate relationships,(See “IDIOT’S DELIGHT: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,” 28 Sep 2021), there will be a continued decline in relationships.
On the loss of financial freedom, the Trends Journal has reported extensively on how the wealthy in the U.S. have gotten richer while the middle class and poor have gotten poorer. (See “HOW THE MIDDLE CLASS IS SHRINKING,” “ERADICATION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS,” and “$4 TRILLION FOR BILLIONAIRES AS MIDDLE CLASS SHRINKS.”)
The “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS 2.0” trend we had forecast will accelerate as income disparities widen. There will be increased labor strikes, renewal of union membership, socialist movements, and new political parties.