"No One Dates"

This may be a bit of a downer to you on Valentine's Day, and maybe a surprise as well: there's some evidence that romance is not as popular as it used to be. Author Arthur Brooks says it's because people are more afraid to risk their hearts today than they used to be.

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Most Gen X and baby boomers dated in high school (85%) according to one study. Some say that "virtual interactions [now] substitute for face-to-face human relationships. It is not a shock to see research emerging that links heavy social media use with loneliness and depression.

Dr. Brooks says, "[T]he percentage of high school seniors who went on dates in 2015 had fallen to 56 percent. I asked my son, a junior in college, if this matched his experience. His matter-of-fact reply: “No one dates.”