Think back to your childhood. Do you picture meandering around the playground by yourself, hoping that someone will ask you to join in? Being left out of parties? Sitting alone at the lunch table? As ...

Most concerns about singletons are without merit today especially the lonely, only child stereotype. Others border on absurdity, but that doesn't stop people from holding onto what they were taught or ...

As technology and social media grow, children are feeling lonelier than ever. According to a 2022 survey from the Survey Center on American Life, 56% of Gen Zers (people born between 1997-2012) ...

Twelve-year-old Josh and his mom had accomplished a lot during seven sessions of therapy. He was getting along better with his little sister, and his interactions with his mom were more positive. It ...

Childhood is made up of some of the most pivotal experiences of our lives. Because the young developing mind is easily affected by the environments in which we grow up, certain experiences and events ...

In 2023, in an advisory entitled "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," former surgeon general Vivek Murthy wrote that "social disconnection was far more common than I had realized." And the ...

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