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A Baby Boomer is someone born after the post World War 2 "baby boom", generally they were born between 1946 and 1964.
"Boomers" are hated by younger generations, because:
Let's start with this article published yesterday on hitc.com:
By: Yasmine Leung
The number of baby boomers living alone in the US has increased 11 million in the past two decades following shifts in gender and marriage attitudes, according to a National Institutes Of Health report, leading to a higher risk of problems affecting physical and mental health.
Almost 30 per cent of all US households in 2022 are single-person households, a figure that has risen 13 percent since the 1960s, reports the US Census Bureau. Those statistics are boosted by the almost 26 million US residents aged 50 or above who are living alone. In 2000, that figure stood at 15 million. Baby boomers now make up the biggest share of that statistic for the first time. Attitudes towards marriage and family have visibly evolved through generations as baby boomers have placed individual fulfillment ahead of traditional family roles.
With more focus on individuality, divorce has become increasingly accepted in society as many feel being single is better than remaining trapped in an unhappy marriage.
The New York Times reports baby boomers – aged 58 to 76 – have had greater opportunities for financial independence and professional advancement than earlier generations.
College professor Donna Selman tells the newspaper she’s “mostly grateful” to be single due to the emotional and financial autonomy her mother never had.
An unnamed videographer also said he was happy to live alone but was concerned over who would care for him in his later years.
The National Institute On Aging claims physical and mental problems such as high blood pressure, depression, and cognitive decline are related to social isolation and loneliness. The institute said those at greater risk of problems were people who found themselves unexpectedly alone after the sudden death of a spouse or loss of mobility.
An active social life was also concluded to help “moderately buffer” loneliness at an older age. The study by Markus Schafer, a sociologist at Baylor University, claimed extra-household connections didn’t fully replace the companionship offered by living with someone.
Lastly, I wanted to share this article that was also published yesterday, this was published on the website, The Straits Times.com:
Ms Donna Selman, a 55-year-old college professor in Illinois, is mostly grateful to be single, she said, because her mother and aunts never had the financial and emotional autonomy that she enjoys.
Ms Mary Felder, 65, raised her children, now grown, in her row house in Philadelphia. Her home has plenty of space for one person, but upkeep is expensive on the century-old house.
Ms Felder, Mr Miles and Prof Selman are members of one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups: people 50 and older who live alone.
In 1960, just 13 per cent of American households had a single occupant. But that figure has risen steadily, and today it is approaching 30 per cent. For households headed by someone 50 or older, that figure is 36 per cent. Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000. Older people have always been more likely than others to live by themselves, and now that age group – baby boomers and Gen Xers – makes up a bigger share of the population than at any time in US history.
The trend has also been driven by deep changes in attitudes surrounding gender and marriage. People 50-plus today are more likely than earlier generations to be divorced, separated or never married. Women in this category have had opportunities for professional advancement, homeownership and financial independence that were all but out of reach for previous generations of older women. More than 60 per cent of older adults living by themselves are female.
“There is this huge, kind of explosive social and demographic change happening,” said Professor Markus Schafer, a sociologist at Baylor University who studies older populations.
In interviews, many older adults said they feel positively about their lives.
But while many people in their 50s and 60s thrive living solo, research is unequivocal that people ageing alone experience worse physical and mental health outcomes and shorter life spans.
And even with an active social and family life, people in this group are generally more lonely than those who live with others, according to Prof Schafer’s research.
In many ways, the nation’s housing stock has grown out of sync with these shifting demographics. Many solo adults live in homes with at least three bedrooms, census data shows, but find that downsizing is not easy because of a shortage of smaller homes in their towns and neighborhoods.
Compounding the challenge of living solo, a growing share of older adults – about 1 in 6 Americans 55 and older – do not have children, raising questions about how elder care will be managed in the coming decades.
“What will happen to this cohort?” Prof Schafer asked. “Can they continue to find other supports that compensate for living alone?”
For many solo adults, the pandemic highlighted the challenges of ageing.
Prof Selman, 55, lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, when Covid-19 hit. Divorced for 17 years, she said she used the enforced isolation to establish new routines to stave off loneliness and depression. She quit drinking and began regularly calling a group of female friends. In 2022, she got a new job and moved to Normal, Illinois, in part because she wanted to live in a state that better reflected her progressive politics. She has met new friends at a farmers’ market, she said, and is happier than she was before the pandemic, even though she occasionally wishes she had a romantic partner to take motorcycle rides with her or just to help carry laundry up and down the stairs of her three-bedroom home. She regularly drives 12 hours round trip to care for her parents near Detroit, an obligation that has persuaded her to put away her retirement fantasy of living near the beach, and move someday closer to her daughter and grandson, who live in Louisville, Kentucky.
“I don’t want my daughter to stress out about me,” she said.
Watching their own parents age seems to have had a profound effect on many members of Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, who say they doubt that they can lean on the same support that their parents did: long marriages, pensions, homes that sometimes skyrocketed in value.
When his mother died two years ago, Mr Miles, the videographer, took comfort in moving some of her furniture into his house in New Haven, Connecticut.
“It was a coming home psychologically,” he said, allowing him to feel rooted after decades of cross-country moves and peripatetic career explorations, shifting from the music business to high school teaching to producing films for nonprofits and companies.
“I still feel pretty indestructible, foolishly or not,” he said.
Still, caring for his divorced mother made him think about his own future. She had a government pension, security he lacks. Nor does he have children.
“I can’t call my kid,” he added, “the way I used to go to my mom’s house to change light bulbs.”
His options for maintaining independence are “all terrible”, he said. “I’m totally freaked out by it.”
Living solo in homes with three or more bedrooms sounds like a luxury but, experts said, it is a trend driven less by personal choice than by the nation’s limited housing supply. Because of zoning and construction limitations in many cities and towns, there is a nationwide shortage of homes below 1,400 sq ft, which has driven up the cost of the smaller units, according to research from Freddie Mac. Forty years ago, units of less than 1,400 sq ft made up about 40 per cent of all new home construction; today, just 7 per cent of new builds are smaller homes, despite the fact that the number of single-person households has surged. This has made it more difficult for older Americans to downsize, as a large, ageing house can often command less than what a single adult needs to establish a new, smaller home and pay for their living and health care expenses in retirement.
www.hitc.com
www.straitstimes.com
"Boomers" are hated by younger generations, because:
- Boomers enjoyed the benefits of the Sexual Revolution - their ugly sons, are now on .IS.
- Boomers did not need to go to college to be able to afford a home, and they could afford to start a family with only a high school diploma.
- Boomers allowed Bill Clinton to sell their children's futures away with the signing of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
- Boomers arguably destroyed the environment more than any other generation (besides the dropping of atomic weapons), boomers polluted the world's oceans with nuclear waste, dropped depleted uranium bombs on people in the Middle East, boomers always put consumerism over the environment.
- Boomers never looked into the September 11th terrorist attacks - because, the goym know not to bite the hand that signs their paychecks.
- Boomers waged a 19-year-long war in the Middle East - according to Brown.edu, the "War on Terror" cost United States taxpayers $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths.
- Boomers have left younger generations with a country that is full of illegal immigrants, the border has been left open so that human parasites can move to the United States, lower wages for the natives, create friction in the communities they invade, use resources that should be going to American citizens, and of course they are encouraged to breed like rabbits - all the while American incels go sexless.
- Boomers could afford to live in the same city they were born in - their children are being priced out of the cities they were born in by the rise in the cost of living.
- Boomers allowed the Jewish-media to promote nonsense that boomers never had to deal with growing up: like the legalization of gay marriage, the trend of being trans and cross dressing becoming normalized, foids becoming fat and thinking that it is alright, foids getting tattoos, foids using birth control as a means of contraception - Boomers are disgusting!
Let's start with this article published yesterday on hitc.com:
Record number of baby boomers living alone – study says it harms mental health
By: Yasmine Leung
The number of baby boomers living alone in the US has increased 11 million in the past two decades following shifts in gender and marriage attitudes, according to a National Institutes Of Health report, leading to a higher risk of problems affecting physical and mental health.
Almost 30 per cent of all US households in 2022 are single-person households, a figure that has risen 13 percent since the 1960s, reports the US Census Bureau. Those statistics are boosted by the almost 26 million US residents aged 50 or above who are living alone. In 2000, that figure stood at 15 million. Baby boomers now make up the biggest share of that statistic for the first time. Attitudes towards marriage and family have visibly evolved through generations as baby boomers have placed individual fulfillment ahead of traditional family roles.
With more focus on individuality, divorce has become increasingly accepted in society as many feel being single is better than remaining trapped in an unhappy marriage.
The New York Times reports baby boomers – aged 58 to 76 – have had greater opportunities for financial independence and professional advancement than earlier generations.
College professor Donna Selman tells the newspaper she’s “mostly grateful” to be single due to the emotional and financial autonomy her mother never had.
An unnamed videographer also said he was happy to live alone but was concerned over who would care for him in his later years.
Studies link loneliness to higher risk of physical and mental conditions
While some have opted to live alone, whether due to divorce or children moving out, some lack the security of government pensions or direct family. Difficulties for single households are also credited to the nation’s rising housing market as many senior people live in large homes with hefty maintenance costs. Only seven percent of newbuilds are smaller homes, despite surging numbers of one-person households. This, in turn, has propelled the price of small units.The National Institute On Aging claims physical and mental problems such as high blood pressure, depression, and cognitive decline are related to social isolation and loneliness. The institute said those at greater risk of problems were people who found themselves unexpectedly alone after the sudden death of a spouse or loss of mobility.
An active social life was also concluded to help “moderately buffer” loneliness at an older age. The study by Markus Schafer, a sociologist at Baylor University, claimed extra-household connections didn’t fully replace the companionship offered by living with someone.
Lastly, I wanted to share this article that was also published yesterday, this was published on the website, The Straits Times.com:
As Gen X and baby boomers age, they confront living alone
PHILADELPHIA – Mr Jay Miles has lived his 52 years without marriage or children, which has suited his creative ambitions as a videographer in Connecticut and, he said, his mix of “independence and stubbornness”. But he worries about who will take care of him as he gets older.Ms Donna Selman, a 55-year-old college professor in Illinois, is mostly grateful to be single, she said, because her mother and aunts never had the financial and emotional autonomy that she enjoys.
Ms Mary Felder, 65, raised her children, now grown, in her row house in Philadelphia. Her home has plenty of space for one person, but upkeep is expensive on the century-old house.
Ms Felder, Mr Miles and Prof Selman are members of one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups: people 50 and older who live alone.
In 1960, just 13 per cent of American households had a single occupant. But that figure has risen steadily, and today it is approaching 30 per cent. For households headed by someone 50 or older, that figure is 36 per cent. Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000. Older people have always been more likely than others to live by themselves, and now that age group – baby boomers and Gen Xers – makes up a bigger share of the population than at any time in US history.
The trend has also been driven by deep changes in attitudes surrounding gender and marriage. People 50-plus today are more likely than earlier generations to be divorced, separated or never married. Women in this category have had opportunities for professional advancement, homeownership and financial independence that were all but out of reach for previous generations of older women. More than 60 per cent of older adults living by themselves are female.
“There is this huge, kind of explosive social and demographic change happening,” said Professor Markus Schafer, a sociologist at Baylor University who studies older populations.
In interviews, many older adults said they feel positively about their lives.
But while many people in their 50s and 60s thrive living solo, research is unequivocal that people ageing alone experience worse physical and mental health outcomes and shorter life spans.
And even with an active social and family life, people in this group are generally more lonely than those who live with others, according to Prof Schafer’s research.
In many ways, the nation’s housing stock has grown out of sync with these shifting demographics. Many solo adults live in homes with at least three bedrooms, census data shows, but find that downsizing is not easy because of a shortage of smaller homes in their towns and neighborhoods.
Compounding the challenge of living solo, a growing share of older adults – about 1 in 6 Americans 55 and older – do not have children, raising questions about how elder care will be managed in the coming decades.
“What will happen to this cohort?” Prof Schafer asked. “Can they continue to find other supports that compensate for living alone?”
For many solo adults, the pandemic highlighted the challenges of ageing.
Prof Selman, 55, lived in Terre Haute, Indiana, when Covid-19 hit. Divorced for 17 years, she said she used the enforced isolation to establish new routines to stave off loneliness and depression. She quit drinking and began regularly calling a group of female friends. In 2022, she got a new job and moved to Normal, Illinois, in part because she wanted to live in a state that better reflected her progressive politics. She has met new friends at a farmers’ market, she said, and is happier than she was before the pandemic, even though she occasionally wishes she had a romantic partner to take motorcycle rides with her or just to help carry laundry up and down the stairs of her three-bedroom home. She regularly drives 12 hours round trip to care for her parents near Detroit, an obligation that has persuaded her to put away her retirement fantasy of living near the beach, and move someday closer to her daughter and grandson, who live in Louisville, Kentucky.
“I don’t want my daughter to stress out about me,” she said.
Watching their own parents age seems to have had a profound effect on many members of Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, who say they doubt that they can lean on the same support that their parents did: long marriages, pensions, homes that sometimes skyrocketed in value.
When his mother died two years ago, Mr Miles, the videographer, took comfort in moving some of her furniture into his house in New Haven, Connecticut.
“It was a coming home psychologically,” he said, allowing him to feel rooted after decades of cross-country moves and peripatetic career explorations, shifting from the music business to high school teaching to producing films for nonprofits and companies.
“I still feel pretty indestructible, foolishly or not,” he said.
Still, caring for his divorced mother made him think about his own future. She had a government pension, security he lacks. Nor does he have children.
“I can’t call my kid,” he added, “the way I used to go to my mom’s house to change light bulbs.”
His options for maintaining independence are “all terrible”, he said. “I’m totally freaked out by it.”
Living solo in homes with three or more bedrooms sounds like a luxury but, experts said, it is a trend driven less by personal choice than by the nation’s limited housing supply. Because of zoning and construction limitations in many cities and towns, there is a nationwide shortage of homes below 1,400 sq ft, which has driven up the cost of the smaller units, according to research from Freddie Mac. Forty years ago, units of less than 1,400 sq ft made up about 40 per cent of all new home construction; today, just 7 per cent of new builds are smaller homes, despite the fact that the number of single-person households has surged. This has made it more difficult for older Americans to downsize, as a large, ageing house can often command less than what a single adult needs to establish a new, smaller home and pay for their living and health care expenses in retirement.
Record number of baby boomers living alone – study says it harms mental health
The trend of baby boomers living alone has increased by 11 million over two decades following shifts in gender and marriage attitudes.
www.hitc.com
As Gen X and baby boomers age, they confront living alone
More older Americans are living by themselves than ever before. That shift presents issues on housing, health care and personal finance. Read more at straitstimes.com.
