In some countries, many more people are choosing to leave nowadays than in the past. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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The number of one-person households is increasing exponentially in developed countries
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as Japan and Korea. It is a significant societal change comparing to the past
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when family members within three or four generations often lived together.
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, I firmly believe that
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is a harmful development worsening our mental healths and taking away the ability to take care
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the elderly.
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of all,
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become more vulnerable to mental illness when they live
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their own.
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, especially young ones, are busy and have to face
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lots of pressure
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. When they have no one to share their thoughts and feelings, it can
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down to depression and even suicide.
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, living alone takes a tremendous toll on our mental healths.
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,
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suffers
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from various issues when they live alone, either with or without stable incomes. In
Korean
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Korea
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, old
people
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are often not financially supported by the government. And, it is not uncommon to see Korean grandmas have to
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trash all day to be able to feed themselves. While in Japan, where old
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have sufficient savings, they may pass away alone for months before
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notices.
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, the increasing trend of living alone is doing more harm than good for the older generation, who have already sacrificed a lot for us. In a nutshell, as
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household leading to mental health illness and
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neglecting
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generation, it is obviously not a social improvement. In the future,
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should decentralize
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so that
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do not have to live away from their family members. They can
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promote share
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or other community-based living styles, so we
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can live and take care of others.
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