Globally, people are either not marrying, marrying late, or choosing to live alone (DePaulo 2023). This means various things for society and the way the world organizes itself. Firstly, that people are increasingly moving beyond the family unit and are choosing to go solo or form other kinds of kinships beyond marriage and family.
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Singlehood, with its broad outlook towards the social unit, is decidedly moving beyond marriage and family, and if done right, has the possibility of establishing soul kinship and comradeship.
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[...] singlehood has put friendship at the centre of life, and not marriage and family. This is decidedly a move towards a soul kinship, which eventually leads to world union, for world union cannot be formed through force or physically bringing together nations, but through a connection at the level of the soul (Sri Aurobindo, 1997, 547)
Excerpts from the article "Making Connections: Apropos World Union and Singlehood" published in the bimonthly ejournal of World Union Volume 1, Issue 1, 15th August 2024.