A head nurse at a hospital told me that many on her staff are leaving the profession because patients have become so abusive. My second, related question is: Why have Americans become so mean? I was recently talking with a restaurant owner who said that he has to eject a customer from his restaurant for rude or cruel behavior once a week-something that never used to happen. The percentage of high-school students who report “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” shot up from 26 percent in 2009 to 44 percent in 2021.Ĭheck out more from this issue and find your next story to read. More than half of all Americans say that no one knows them well. A record-high 25 percent of 40-year-old Americans have never married. The share of Americans ages 25 to 54 who weren’t married or living with a romantic partner went up to 38 percent in 2019, from 29 percent in 1990. The percentage of people who say they don’t have close friends has increased fourfold since 1990. But other statistics are similarly troubling. The first is: Why have Americans become so sad? The rising rates of depression have been well publicized, as have the rising deaths of despair from drugs, alcohol, and suicide. O ver the past eight years or so, I’ve been obsessed with two questions. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.
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