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Perhaps you would be interested in writing about kinless people.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2023

A widely read article by Paula Span at the New York Times calls attention to the growing number of "kinless" older Americans who do not have spouses, siblings or children.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2023

Researchers are concerned that these kinless Americans are likely to die earlier, and toward the end of their lives receive fewer hours of caregiving and are likelier to die alone in nursing homes.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2023

The growing number of kinless seniors, who sometimes call themselves “elder orphans” or “solo agers,” worries researchers and advocates, because this group faces numerous disadvantages.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022

An English Commission of Justice, established in May 1652, was confessedly more fair and impartial than any Scotland had known, which was explained by the fact that the English judges “were kinless loons.”

From A Short History of Scotland by Lang, Andrew