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If you're single and not doing well economically, you're reluctant to take on the responsibility of a marriage so people hunker down a little bit. that's not just true in the united states. you find that in many other places as well. a big economic collapse and the end of the welfare state that could do something. let's hope it doesn't happen. >> let's hope the boomers are listening to this as they make their choices at the polls in november. thank you kate bolick, and eric klinenberg, the best book written about "going solo" on newsstands. ozzie guillen apologizes for praising fidel castro....

It's a mix of women, middle-aged adults and elderly. joining the panel, kate bolick contributing editor at atlantic. and eric klinenberg, author of "going solo, the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone." let's talk a little bit about this. these numbers are surprising. 1950, 22% of american adults were single, 4 million lived alone and accounted for 9% of all households. today, 50% of american adults are single, 31 million living alone, that's 28% of all households. >> i call this the biggest social change of the last 60 years that we have failed to name or identify. it is ...

>> it's completely tied into discussions of birth control and discussions of being able to exert these kinds of choices how our lives are going to go. again, rather than living by outdated script. >> eric klinenberg, author of "going solo." i urge you to read it. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we will be back after this. look! the phillips' lady! we have to thank you for the advice on phillips' caplets. magnesium, right? you bet! phillips' caplets use magnesium. works more naturally than stimulant laxatives... for gentle relief of occasional constipation. can i get an...

Klinenberg whose newberg is on this topic kouled "going -- called "going solo." thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me here. >> it's a demographic trend we never hear about. i'm curious how you wrote a book on people living alone. >> i came in it on the dark side like most of us. we think about living alone, we tend to think about isolation or loneliness. i had written a book about a heat wave in chicago where hundreds of people died and hundreds of people died alone. it was a tragedy and i got concerned about how this could happen. so i started studying living alone in america, ...