I doubt that many of us would argue with that proposition. All the recent medical and psychological studies confirm the dangers of being alone. The rate for virtually every major cause of death in the United States is significantly higher for the single than for the divorced, for the widowed than for the married.

And yet educators tell us that 50 percent of the children in our education system will spend at least a few years of their lives in a single parent household, which is another way of saying that one out of two marriages that take place this year will end in divorce.

It is not good for people to be alone, and yet a study a few years back showed that 23 percent of the households in America--nearly one in four--consist of one single individual. The figure is doubtless higher now. I…