Loneliness is the bane of modern life, according to Anglican clergy. The lives of the elderly and the young are blighted by a sense of loneliness and isolation, a survey of vicars has shown – and in London, 75 per cent of vicars claimed that social isolation was a huge problem.
The rise in divorce, the fall in the number of marriages, the number of households without fathers and the need to find work far from one’s family: the ingredients for loneliness are everywhere.
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