Writing for the Institute for Family Studies on Wednesday, Thomas O’Rourke highlights key findings from the American Time Use Survey — a measurement tool used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that calculates how people spend their time across the day.

O’Rourke, who is a policy researcher and writer studying social capital, economic mobility and anti-poverty policy, sets his sights on how much free time single people and married people have available to spend.

Not surprisingly, single people have more time — one hour and ten minutes, on average. The survey also found that married people spend 90 minutes of their day caring for others compared to single people who spend just 7 minutes.

How they spend their respective free time is also revealing. Those who are single and childless spend 63% alone while those who are married spend just 37% on solo activities.

Apart from leisure availability, the data also reveals that married people spend more time on household chores and less time socializing and relaxing.

Yet — and here is the kicker — despite a significant daily disparity in available free time, married people are almost twice as happy as single childless Americans.

It seems the carefree lifestyle so regularly touted and championed in popular culture as a pathway and elixir to endless mirth and merriment is a myth.

A young woman whose body was damaged by testosterone is suing the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP), the Lifespan Physician Group, and doctors and counselors who prescribed this treatment. The suit charges the defendants with civil conspiracy, fraud, medical malpractice, gross negligence and failure to give informed consent.

According to the Daily Wire, which broke the story, “Isabelle Ayala, now a twenty-year-old woman, had just turned fourteen when she was committed to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, according to the lawsuit.”

The AAP is named in the suit for publishing a policy statement in 2018, “Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents,” which the suit says, “not only misrepresented or misleadingly presented its purported evidentiary support but was also rife with outright fraudulent representations.”

Dr. Jason Rafferty, who authored that position statement and prescribed testosterone for Ayala, is named in the case, along with Drs. Michelle Forcier, Brittany Allen and Ilana Sherer, part of the AAP “LGBT Health & Wellness” committee that started the process to create the new policy.

Forcier gained notoriety when she appeared in Matt Walsh’s documentary, What Is a Woman, where she put on full display the ridiculousness of the ideology used to harm so many children. She discussed the gender identity of egg-laying hens with Walsh, asking, “Does a chicken have a gender identity? Does a chicken cry? Does it commit suicide?”

Nearly 25% of the world — over 1 billion people — feel “very” or “fairly” lonely, a new survey has found.

According to the new Gallup-Meta study, feelings of loneliness now pervade our planet.

The survey found that 24% of adults worldwide feel “very” or “fairly” lonely; 27% feel “a little lonely”; and 49% of adults feel “not at all lonely.”

However, Gallup notes the number of people worldwide who report feeling lonely could be much higher because the survey was not conducted in China — the second-most populous country in the world.

Additionally, the survey examined the difference in reported feelings of loneliness between age groups.

There is a popular perception that elderly adults are the ones who experience the greatest degree of loneliness. The Gallup survey brings that narrative into question.

It found a 10-point gap in loneliness between younger and older adults, but it is younger Americans who report higher rates of loneliness.

Twenty-seven percent of adults aged 19-29 report feeling “very” or “fairly” lonely compared to just 17% of adults aged 65 or older.

“Although many calls to reduce loneliness are focused on older adults, majorities of those aged 45 and older do not feel lonely at all, while less than half of those younger than 45 say the same,” Gallup reports.