A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
Posted on 03/17/2024 10:36:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
More and more young people in Germany say they often feel lonely. That poses significant health risks, but researchers say there's also a link between loneliness and anti-democratic attitudes.
Loneliness is often described as a silent pandemic in Germany. The latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office indicate that one in six people over the age of 10 often feel lonely — that's around 12.2 million people.
Loneliness is defined by psychologists as a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships, and is different from social isolation. Statistics show that in Germany young people are the worst affected: A quarter of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they often feel lonely.
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A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression
“Loneliness is defined by psychologists as a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships.”
I bet a lot of it has to do with the internet. Watching people on-line documenting going out with their friends and doing all sorts of stuff. While the lonely person is...sitting at home on the internet.
We didn’t have that influence growing up. Although I do recall sitting on the front steps with friends and trying to figure out what to do, with numerous suggestions squashed for some reason or another. Even worse when it was raining on a school day and your friends were stuck inside. “I can’t, I have homework, etc.”
It does get easier as one gets older.
The guys are lonely because they can’t get laid. The girls can’t get laid because they aren’t sure the guys are real guys and the unsure guys aren’t positive about if they are really guys or girls and have already screwed themselves. The rest are ugly. Hey! It’s a guess. I’m not a professor and I’m 86’d out of Holiday Inn for organizing a who can pee the farthest contest on the balcony of the 5th floor with a keg of green beer. Also No body was Irish and lonely.
bet a lot of it has to do with the internet.
Games for individual players, hours alone, and social interaction through a screen and a keyboard. People are more blunt in casually calling others idiots, and dating rejections take only seconds of interaction.
Feck yeah that’s lonely. GO OUTSIDE and play with a dog.
If they liked themselves, they wouldn't be lonely.
The decline of the family surely is
I ride my bicycle many miles into the woods to be lonely.
Ever ride far enough to run out of people? My time in the woods was alway my time. I loved it. Coming back to civilization was always a let down. Then I’d call a friend and go do something. I grew up in the country, my nearest school mate was miles away. No computers, no neighbors, no internet, and chores a dog and mischief to get attention when the folks got home. Looking back it seems pretty good now. Comparatively.
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
I used to almost always ride during the daylight but for the last year I been riding almost always late at night. Late night is great because there are hardly any people or cars and the traffic lights mostly turn off or flash yellow past 11pm. Which is lonely in plain sight. I reccommend it 👍
A lot of it has to do with the state being the replacement for parents. One of the central planks is kids being raised by the state so both parents can work.
If you are secure, because you had a good childhood, you don’t needs to the same degree if you are secure in your family.
My suggestion: INVADE FRANCE!
Ten seconds in the saddle is worth a lifetime of watching from the stands ( Chris Ledoue). Be Safe. Regards
Capt. Obvious!
[...] recall sitting on the front steps with friends and trying to figure out what to do, with numerous suggestions squashed for some reason or another. Even worse when it was raining on a school day and your friends were stuck inside. “I can’t, I have homework, etc.”
That isn't loneliness. That is "having friends" but "having only poor options to enjoy leisure time."
Regards,
Statistics show that in Germany young people are the worst affected: A quarter of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they often feel lonely.
If the article doesn't further differentiate between men and women between the ages of 18 and 29, and if it doesn't then go on to explain that men define and experience "loneliness" differently than women, then the article is useless.
Regards,
If younger people these days would put down those d@mn phones and stop scrolling social media and testing each other to communicate, and get out and do volunteer work of some kind, there wouldn’t be a problem with loneliness.
I think the word “tough” has lost it meaning. It used to be said to me when I’d complain I didn’t have anything to do. Dad would say “tough, but hey old buddy. I got a broom and the shop needs cleaned “. I complained a lot and “old buddy” became my name. I used to run out the door if dad told mom “Old” I’d be gone before he said I gotta go help Harold mend that old barn. I could’ve signed my driver’s license at 16. Old Buddy. Kids expect things now instead of ducking and running out to see what the dog wants to do. Looking back. “ Hey old buddy” never hurt me. Regards
Women do NOT place the same premium upon "getting laid."
You are making a fundamental error in implicitly assuming that 1) men and women have equal sex drives, and that 2) the "playing field" for men and women is level (i.e., they have equal opportunity to satisfy those unequal drives).
If a man could simply walk into a bar and proclaim, "I'll sleep with anyone of the opposite sex here!", and get "takers," then there would be no "epidemic" of male loneliness. The reverse scenario is NOT true.
A male in that age bracket has a biological time-bomb in his pants; he's producing roughly half a billion sperm per day; his sex drive consists in part of an actual physical urgency demanding periodic release.
In addition to that, there are the socio-psychological aspects such as the need for validation (which is why masturbation, alone, is not the answer). Women (online and in the real world) get validation galore (provided they aren't in the bottom 20%). Among men, only the top 20% are even perceived as existing.
Unless the article differentiates between the sexes, its basic thesis is severely flawed - tantamount to claiming that "inflation hits paupers and millionaires equally hard."
Regards,
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