🚶 Loneliness

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The male friendship recession.

Loneliness

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Men have fewer friends than women and are at greater risk of isolation. The gap has widened in recent years. A 2021 report from the Survey Center on American Life identified a male “friendship recession,” with 15% of men saying they have no close friends, up from 3% in 1990.43 Unsurprisingly, these are also the men who are most likely to report feeling lonely.

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Daniel Cox a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who conducted the survey, writes, “In 1990, nearly half (45%) of young men reported that when facing a personal problem, they would reach out first to their friends. Today, only 22% of young men lean on their friends in tough times. Thirty-six percent say their first call is to their parents.”44 This may in part be because the men are more likely to be living under the same roof as Mom and Dad. In 2014, one in three young adult men (35%) were living with their parents, more than were living with a wife or partner.45 For women, it is the other way around.

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Men on their own tend to be men alone.

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Japan, where the rising number of hikikomori (shut-ins) has prompted widespread national concern

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