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Cristina enjoys helping group members form deep bonds, support each other through ups and downs, and learn helpful parenting strategies. Facilitating these connections and providing a sense of camaraderie and competence for parents is what she does best. Research seems to validate Cristina’s passion for making sure people feel connected to each other.
According to a New York Times editorial on 7/14/23 called, “If Loneliness Is An Epidemic, How Do We Treat It?” by Eleanor Cummins and Andrew Zaleski, more than one-fifth of Americans over age 18 say they often or always feel lonely or socially isolated. Chronic loneliness is related to a range of physical and neurological problems including increased susceptibility to infections and cognitive decline.
In the book called The Good Life, authors Waldinger and Schulz distill what makes people find happiness based on the world’s longest scientific study of happiness to date. One thing became irrefutable: strong relationships most accurately predicted people’s happiness throughout their lives. They are “intrinsic to everything we do and everything we are,” the authors write.
NYTimes: “Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s”
“Since 2010, suicide rates among young men have risen by a third — they are now higher than they are among middle-aged men. The share of college degrees going to men has fallen to 41 percent, lower than the women’s share in 1970. One in 10 men aged 20 to 24 is effectively doing nothing — neither enrolled in school nor working. That’s twice the rate in 1990.”
By Robert D. Putnam and Richard V. Reeves | Aug. 15, 2025
The authors are social theorists who have long studied the roots and consequences of inequality.
One thing became irrefutable: strong relationships most accurately predicted people’s happiness throughout their lives. They are “intrinsic to everything we do and everything we are,” the authors write. When the participants in the happiness study were asked how they overcame adversity—illnesses, war memories, and losses—their connections always remained a cornerstone of hope in their lives, whether they recalled the person who lent them money when they didn’t have anywhere to turn or their fellow soldier who kept them afloat when they fought (many of the participants served in war). As they aged, the participants who shared regrets mainly bemoaned how little time they spent with family and friends and how much they cared about the seemingly trivial—success and money.
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