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CBC, Mar 25 — A growing number of people are making the decision to live alone, rather than in couples or families. In Canada and the United States, almost 30 percent of all adults live on their own. According to Eric Klinenberg, a professor of sociology at New York University, this isn’t just blip or a passing trend. It’s
MoreThe Diane Rehm Show, Feb 6 — In 1950, four million American adults lived alone. They represented nine percent of all U.S. households. Today, thirty-one million live alone … twenty-eight percent of all households. For the first time in centuries, the majority of all American adults are single. They will spend more of their adult life unmarried than married, and for much of this time they will live alone. The global numbers of people living alone is also skyrocketing, especially in urban areas of the Scandinavian countries, western Europe and Japan. A New York University sociologist examined the factors behind this trend, and how it is transforming our communities.
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