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This week, three seemingly unrelated news stories emerged. The Financial Times reported on the decline in couples and its impact on the birth rate . Official US data confirmed that teenage alcohol consumption has fallen to its lowest level in fifty years. And several studies documented unprecedented levels of chronic loneliness among Generation Z. These aren’t three news stories. They’re three symptoms of the same phenomenon. The demographic elephant that no one wants to name The usual…