Alone: The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness by Kay S. Hymowitz

Alone: The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness by Kay S. Hymowitz

Still, the loneliness thesis taps into a widespread intuition of something true and real and grave. Foundering social trust, collapsing heartland communities, an opioid epidemic, and rising numbers of “deaths of despair” suggest a profound, collective discontent. It’s worth mapping out one major cause that is simultaneously so obvious and so uncomfortable that loneliness observers tend to mention it only in passing. I’m talking, of course, about family breakdown.

Fascinating article on a rarely mentioned effect of family breakdown. Scripture says "God places the lonely in families." We are doing our best to upend that!