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The 65-year-old is single with no children, and bound up in that choice over who should make financial decisions on her behalf are other big questions that are often intensified when aging alone. How to handle eldercare? Estate planning? Where will she live in her later years?
"It all falls on me," she said.

Kant had long cherished the freedom that came with being single. She prided herself on doing headstands in yoga and walking 5 miles a day. But lately being single has felt like a struggle, and not just because of the weighty financial decisions hanging over her head. Back surgery and a heart valve replacement in the past few years have turned her condominium outside Boston into a recovery ward.

... Kant is among the millions of Americans learning to navigate aging alone. Roughly 10% of the more than 125 million adults ages 50 and older in the U.S.or at least 12.5 million peopleare solo agers who live alone and have neither a spouse nor a child, according to an AARP analysis of census data. It's a growing demographic hitting both genders, driven in part by climbing divorce rates among older Americans and a rising number of adult children becoming alienated from their parents.

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Over_ed said:

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GAC06 said:

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I wonder how the lifelong single cat lady votes

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You have no idea...

Never married women - Dem + lean dem 72% ___ Rep + lean rep 24%
Living with partner - Dem + lean 65% ___ Rep + lean 30%
Divorced / separated Dem + lean 55% ___ Rep + lean 40%

Note the rows don't add up to 100% due to those identify as neither Dem nor Rep.

Liberal women have problems with making and keeping relationships. This keeps a lot of therapists living the high life.

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Rapier108 said:

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Over_ed said:

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GAC06 said:

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I wonder how the lifelong single cat lady votes

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You have no idea...

Never married women - Dem + lean dem 72% ___ Rep + lean rep 24%
Living with partner - Dem + lean 65% ___ Rep + lean 30%
Divorced / separated Dem + lean 55% ___ Rep + lean 40%

Note the rows don't add up to 100% due to those identify as neither Dem nor Rep.

Liberal women have problems with making and keeping relationships. This keeps a lot of therapists living the high life.

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Also keeps the available pool of women who would make a good wife so low that most men end up being **** out of luck.

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ts5641 said:

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Being single when you're young seems like a great choice at the time. Do whatever you want, travel anywhere anytime, sleep around, be the boss of your own life, don't spend any money on children or share it with a significant other.
It seems incredibly sad as people get older though. Being in my 60's now by far and away the most important thing in my life, besides Jesus, is my family. Can't imagine not having them. I'm been very, very blessed to have a family in my life I got married to my wife almost 36 years ago.

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