Britain has recently become a land where 'singles' made up a large element of the society. This started when divorce rates rocketed, after divorce became much easier and cheaper.
So its perhaps its not a surprise that this year set the usual new records for the figures.
For instance, the number of 20 to 34 year olds, living with their parents is currently 3.4 million (which is 3 per cent up on last year). Some of these Singletons are boomer-rangers, meaning those have been leaving their parents home for education and in relationships, but then returning to the parental nest when the education finished, or that relationship then broke down.
There has also been an increase in the numbers of those living with their parents who are aged 45 to 64, which is now up to 2.43 million. Again, this is attributed to a divorce surge a decade ago, and more middle-aged people who remained, or have become single. In fact the only fall in these figures was in the age group 25 to 44 year olds. Here the numbers fell by a whopping 16 per cent, down to 1.34 million.
Overall in the figures, men living at their parental home represent a whopping 33 per cent of the male population. While women living at home represent a more modest 22 per cent of the female population.
In many ways these figures describe the state of the white native society. South Asians groups are not currently likely to be unmarried, or still at home with their parents, while many in the Black communities seem to embrace a different relationship model of more casual hook-ups, but with little male involvement with the resultant offspring.
We are told that a sizeable minority of the UK population are apparently living, locked in a low wage society, only one or two payslips away from financial meltdown. Where divorces and breakups are still far too common, and where, when the relationships do breakdown, the women keep the house more often than the men.
Making new relationships for all the singletons, is much harder than dating sites would have you believe, and that's perhaps why these figures keep rising.
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So its perhaps its not a surprise that this year set the usual new records for the figures.
For instance, the number of 20 to 34 year olds, living with their parents is currently 3.4 million (which is 3 per cent up on last year). Some of these Singletons are boomer-rangers, meaning those have been leaving their parents home for education and in relationships, but then returning to the parental nest when the education finished, or that relationship then broke down.
There has also been an increase in the numbers of those living with their parents who are aged 45 to 64, which is now up to 2.43 million. Again, this is attributed to a divorce surge a decade ago, and more middle-aged people who remained, or have become single. In fact the only fall in these figures was in the age group 25 to 44 year olds. Here the numbers fell by a whopping 16 per cent, down to 1.34 million.
Overall in the figures, men living at their parental home represent a whopping 33 per cent of the male population. While women living at home represent a more modest 22 per cent of the female population.
In many ways these figures describe the state of the white native society. South Asians groups are not currently likely to be unmarried, or still at home with their parents, while many in the Black communities seem to embrace a different relationship model of more casual hook-ups, but with little male involvement with the resultant offspring.
We are told that a sizeable minority of the UK population are apparently living, locked in a low wage society, only one or two payslips away from financial meltdown. Where divorces and breakups are still far too common, and where, when the relationships do breakdown, the women keep the house more often than the men.
Making new relationships for all the singletons, is much harder than dating sites would have you believe, and that's perhaps why these figures keep rising.
By embrace a different relationship model do you mean get pregnant then never see the man again?
ReplyDeleteWell, you might describe it that way but I will stick to a different relationship model. Thanks for the comment.
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