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Reports + Research

Making Caring Common regularly publishes reports that examine barriers to caring and ways in which adults can help children overcoming those barriers.

Posts by Jamie F Finn
Loneliness in America: Just the Tip of the Iceberg?

There has long been an epidemic of loneliness in America. But loneliness may be just the tip of the iceberg.

A new brief report from Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that loneliness may not only be the cause but the result of a wide range of troubling feelings that often interact in complex ways. Respondents who reported loneliness were far more likely to report anxiety, depression, a lack of meaning and purpose and the sense that their place in the world is not important.

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