Posts Tagged ‘loneliness epidemic’

Declining marriages and absent fathers fuel loneliness epidemic

Thursday, June 8th, 2023
loneliness epidemic

A recent study suggests a collapse in marriages and resident fatherhood is fuelling a loneliness epidemic and “the unravelling of Christianity” in the US. Communio, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to strengthening families through partnerships with churches nationwide, conducted the study involving 19,000 Sunday church attendees from 112 evangelical, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. The survey Read more

Work and the loneliness epidemic

Monday, October 9th, 2017

On August 24, 1992, in the early hours of the morning, my family and I stepped out of our temporary shelter to find our city — and our lives — forever changed. We had spent the past several hours huddled together as Hurricane Andrew battered our South Florida neighborhood with torrential rain and winds near Read more