Belonging, identity, and the ways people live together.
The Australia overdose deaths Canberra remembrance ceremony returned to Weston Park for its 31st year on 26 October, as new data put drug-induced deaths at 2,596 in 2024 — seven lives a day.
Teen belonging and mental health are closely linked in a survey of 1,000 US teens: 47% felt moderate to severe loneliness, while stronger connection tracked with less anxiety and depression.
New Zealand child food insecurity has reached its highest level in ten years, with more than one in four households with children regularly missing food they need in a country that exports enough to feed 40 million people.
The Greece social media ban for children under 15, approved 23 October and in force from 1 January 2027, backs parents against endless scrolling — if age checks can work without wrecking privacy.
A documented reimbursement, a closed account, no reason given: one sender's evening inside the machinery of de-risking — and what unexplained closures are doing to the ordinary traffic of money sent with love.
Sending money to friends abroad should be the easy part. A used iPhone crossed from Rotterdam to Hyderabad without incident — then its ₹8,430 customs bill met a payment app that declined the roughly €80 reimbursement four times.
A new Pew survey of online communities in America finds 36% of adults — and 48% of 18- to 29-year-olds — belong to one, prize what they can only find there, and still argue about whether it counts as real connection.
The second annual Social Connection in America survey, released 24 September, found four in ten Americans report moderate to severe loneliness, almost 70% see people they care about no more than once or twice a month, and 57% belong to no club or organisation — while 70.6% still say they belong in their neighbourhood.
Eleven older women in Calgary, all living with multiple chronic conditions and most having fled violent partners, kept each other housed, fed and medically accompanied — work no agency counted. Three new studies converge on the same point: ties between people are not decoration on a safety net. They are part of the net.
A study of three New York communities found that parks, libraries and sidewalks build friendship and trust best when they form a connected, walkable network — not when a single site is left to do the job alone.
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