No wonder young single women are lonelier than ever. Where is their community? | Georgina Lawton

I learned a crucial lesson when I moved abroad: fighting loneliness is all about finding meaningful connections

Loneliness is often seen as an old people" problem, something that affects us much later in life. But data published last month shows that single women are disproportionately affected by this little-discussed issue.

Researchers found that loneliness follows a U-shaped pattern: there's an uptick at the start and end of adulthood, but it drops during middle age, when many of us are preoccupied with families, relationships and career building. But for single women who don't follow this trend, self-reported loneliness is disproportionately high.

Georgina Lawton is the author of Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong