Sad, but by no means unexpected or surprising. It seems perfectly consistent with the increasing social isolation in Western society. Individualism and the core family, contrary to collectivism and group-living, has this effect, especially in a society like ours where materialistic values and "success"-paradigms are predominant.
It is also in line with the results of the study about
internet and social isolation that I posted earlier.
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