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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
such
 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.
However
, I firmly believe that
this
 is a harmful development worsening our mental healths and taking away the ability to take care
for
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 the elderly.
First
 of all,
people
 become more vulnerable to mental illness when they live
by
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 their own.
People
, especially young ones, are busy and have to face
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lots of pressure
everyday
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. When they have no one to share their thoughts and feelings, it can
spriral
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spiral
 down to depression and even suicide.
Thus
, living alone takes a tremendous toll on our mental healths.
Moreover
,
elderly
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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
 are often not financially supported by the government. And, it is not uncommon to see Korean grandmas have to
collects
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 trash all day to be able to feed themselves. While in Japan, where old
people
 have sufficient savings, they may pass away alone for months before
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anyone
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 notices.
Hence
, 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
one-person
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 household leading to mental health illness and
neglectance
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neglecting
reflectance
 of
old
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 generation, it is obviously not a social improvement. In the future,
government
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the government
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 should decentralize
workforce
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 so that
people
 do not have to live away from their family members. They can
also
 promote share
house
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houses
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 or other community-based living styles, so we
people
 can live and take care of others.
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