With the proliferation of employment opportunities for women—and the growing acceptance of men performing routine household chores—living alone has become a realistic option for both sexes. In fact, the single-person household has now become the chosen way of life for roughly 30 percent of the households in Europe and the United States (in Sweden, the number is 47 percent). And the rest of the world is not far behind. Single-person households are even more common in Japan than they are in the United States. But not every nation has embraced this way of life. In India, where family life has
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