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Numbers living home alone soar
 

THE number of people living alone is predicted to increase by almost 50% in 25 years.

In 2006, there were 809,000 homes with one person living in them - 35% of all households. But that is projected to rise to more than 1.2 million - or 44% of all households.

Duncan Macniven, the Registrar General for Scotland, published details of the number of households, showing that in mid-2007 there were 2.3million households in Scotland - 270,000 more than in 1991.

And while the country's population has increased by 1% since 1991, the number of households has gone up by 13%. This is because households are getting smaller, with more people living alone or in smaller groups.

Mr Macniven said: "Over the past 15 years, Scotland's population has increased by 34,000.

"However, the number of households has increased at a far greater rate - by over 250,000 - because the average household size is getting smaller, as more people live alone and in smaller households.

"This trend is predicted to continue. Over the next 25 years, the number of households is projected to increase by almost a fifth to 2.7 million - an average of 17,600 additional households per year.

Mr Macniven explained: "Scotland's population is ageing, with more people in the older age groups and fewer in the younger age groups.

"This has an impact on household structure, as children tend to live in larger households, and older people in smaller ones. Since 2001, the number of households containing one adult has increased by 8%, and the number with two has increased by 7%.

"By 2031, one-adult households are projected to increase by one half and two-adult households will increase by a quarter."

Publication date 09/05/08

Posted by: heavy, Glasgow on 7:08pm Fri 9 May 08
Lawyers and family courts are making it impossible for men to settle down with women.

The amount of wealth grabbed by a completely illegal form of law enforcement has ruined the sanctity of marriage .As long as British judges support golddiggers like Heather Mills and men see how separation can lead to the complete control of their hard earned wealth they should be extremely wary of giving the legal vultures jurisdiction over their estates.

How these legal morons thought they could get away with mass home and asset repossession is beyond our group.We intend to continue to educate those as yet to face the persecution campaigns set up to swindle you of your lifes work.They are the most dangerous terrorists this country has and makes the so called foreign ones pale by comparison.

Join the growing resistance movement against corruption and tyranny.

LJPR LEGAL JUDICIAL POLITICAL REFORMERS

Masonic judges OUT Juries IN

Posted by: tam-m, southside on 7:56pm Fri 9 May 08
if women were taught to stop moaning all the time this would not be happening.
Posted by: weegielady, glasgow on 6:16pm Sat 10 May 08
LOL tam prob correct


I am a single adult householder

was left alone with a toddler and baby, my former hub left me for another woman but never told me at the time just cliched it'its not you, it's me' .

I am now divorced, but I was left bereft ,void of any money, or any worldy goods, just the clothes we had the furniture we had. basics.

I had been a mum at home, and as I cared for the small children, no income as wasn't in a positon to be working, lost my mortgaged home, as he refused to pay for it, I had to 'sign on' for income support, had to declare myself 'homeless' once mine was sold.

I had been married I thought we were happy, with vows strong and adhered to, and we planned our children, we seldom argued, and in a flash, it was all gone.

Money? there was none ,no savings and we had lived on one wage. In many ways, not everyone asks to live alone. I can well understand how some folk enjoy being single.

It is shell shocking for a woman who has been a part of a couple for 15 years, to all of a sudden, be treated like a scumbag and provide 'evidence' to the council tax finance folk etc etc its humiliating

then at home, to tackle, painting, papering, odd jobs, gardening and exhausting as well with the children.

I probably sound sexist, but men are meant to be here for those things lol

and I have had to do it alone, I didnt ever wish to be a lone parent. There was no drink, drugs, violence or outwrad signs. It was a shock.

I am sure a lot of married people only stay together for their weans, mine never even done that, men /women lie daily to their spouse and don't really want them nor love them, and are cheating. I still believe in marriage , despite all the rubbish .

We are not all gold diggers like mental case Heather Mills, I had none to dig -married a poor man ,lol, however. A lot of folk do like being in a partnership. It is difficult now with cost of living etc I guess.
Posted by: tam-m, southside on 3:05am Mon 12 May 08
know how u feel weegielady i had to learn to use a washing machine and iron now i got them conquered i dont need a woman.
sorry to hear about your hardship but it makes you a stronger person and the absent father is the one who has lost out on his children.
best of luck and health.
Posted by: weegielady, glasgow on 10:41am Mon 12 May 08
here tam you are not kidding, I was thinking i maybe typed too much , but it was a balanced account, I am surely not alone in being the only adult in the home as the figires prove it is the new thing.

ps men invented washing machines and irons ,lol. suppose ,its like a woman trying to fix a car! we canny.

You are right, I am stronger. We are both a pair of statistics! lol

marriage and living together isnt the be all and end all it once was. I am disillusioned about all men , sadly I am like Elvis now... well i can't sing, am not famous, and I dont wear diamond encrusted tassle catsuits(ok, but only on a wednesday after the chess club LOL) I mean I have no trust , got a suspicious mind

Life has to be lived without lies ,they always cathc you out, and anyone thinking of leaving a spouse as are having a secret sexual affair, should really make sure it really is love, ask themselves how long they can lie, how do they know it won't end after 6mths and they have thrown a marriage and maybe wee kiddies out with the bath water. If you don't wish to remain married, please communicate, even try some sort of counselling before it gets so 'bad'

Hey tam and anyone else who reads, It doesnt matter if you are solo or a couple, remember to, smile and laugh at least once every day , sing like you dont care who is listening, and stop to hear birds chirp and smell the flowers bloom ,and stockpile the bloody ironing for one night when its raining! as life is too short, buy non iron shirts and trousers,lol

Life is for the living, that is to say, once you are dead, it is too late! No looking back

Posted by: celtic4, United States on 12:58pm Mon 12 May 08
weegie lady, I wholly agree. I have been on my own now for 16 years and love it. I smile all the time, sing, even dance. Nothing keeps me down. But I was married for 25 years. Now divorced and free. Raised 4 children mostly on my own. Thank God for freedom! Smile and the world smiles with you!
Posted by: Edna Bucket, Interweb on 6:49pm Mon 12 May 08
I live alone, through choice, as am too hard on the male eye apparently ,my sister cinderella even managed to pull last week....
Posted by: tam-m, southside on 7:32pm Mon 12 May 08
they say you cant have your cake and eat it .
i get round this by buying two cakes then i can eat one and still have the other.

weegielady phone the scumbag and tell him you won the lottery and ask him back.
then when he turns up with his bags after dumping his partner you can tell him i was kidding .
see how he likes being lied to
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