According to the previous blog’s plan, we started our third trip, Turner Contemporary in Margate. We interviewed some individuals and families according to the plan. They came from different ages and had different understandings of “loneness”.
Through this interview, we found that parents and children in single-parent families are more likely to feel lonely than in a complete family. For parents, when their children are not at home or raised by the other side, they feel the most lonely. For children, parents who are too much involved in their work and thus lack the companionship of family members will make them feel lonely.
According to our survey that there are around 1.8 millions single parents- they make up nearly a quarter of families with dependent children. The average age of a single parent is 38 years. I also come from a single-parent family. I always feel lonely , especially when a situation which need parents together or when my mom devoted to her work cannot accompanied with me.
At the same time, some young people think that they rarely feel lonely because they have many friends and live in groups, which will make them less lonely.
Everyone has their own different attitudes and solutions to loneliness. In the next blog, I will introduce our project plan in detail to help people promote interaction and communication between family members, thus reducing loneliness.
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