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But today, as Eric Klinenberg reminds us in his book, �Going Solo,� more than 50 percent of adults are single. Twenty-eight percent of households nationwide consist of just one person. There are more single-person households than there are married-with-children households. In cities like Denver, Washington and Atlanta, more than 40 percent of the households are one-person dwellings. In Manhattan, roughly half the households are solos.

It�s more accurate to say that we have gone from a society that protected people from their frailties to a society that allows people to maximize their talents.Today, the fast flexible and diverse networks allow the ambitious and the gifted to surf through amazing possibilities. They are able to construct richer, more varied livesOn the other hand, people who lack social capital are more likely to fall through the cracks.

These trends are not going to reverse themselves. So maybe it�s time to acknowledge a core reality: People with skills can really thrive in this tenuous, networked society. People without those advantages would probably be better off if we could build new versions of the settled, stable and thick arrangements we�ve left behind.

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Row over religion and public life takes spotlight

The trend is beginning to worry British politicians largely because it stands in the way of their key objective: nurturing a new sense of national pride, which is almost impossible to achieve without a reference to the country's religious heritage. Britain's leaders look with envy to the United States, where six out of 10 citizens consider religion as 'very important', and where 'God Bless America' is the routine conclusion to any electoral speech. In Britain, 'we don't do God', was how an aide to former British prime minister Tony Blair once memorably put it.

So, the British government has hit upon a new idea: 'doing God' by combining the promotion of Christianity with the defence of other religions. 'It is actually easier for people to believe and practise other faiths when Britain has confidence in its Christian identity,' said Prime Minister David Cameron recently.

More spectacularly, the government sent Lady Sayeeda Warsi, the country's first female Muslim minister, to the Vatican last week, in order to underline the alliance between religions. 'We have got to the stage where aggressive secularism is being imposed by stealth,' Lady Warsi warned. 'You cannot and should not extract Christian foundations from the evolution of our nations any more than you can or should erase the spires from our landscapes,' she said, to applause from the Vatican's prelates.

But, at least in one respect, Christianity is still thriving in Britain. Because church-run schools are far better than state ones, parents go to great lengths to get their offspring into them, and do not seem to mind that the curriculum includes a good dose of religion. And that includes Lady Warsi, whose child is now attending a Christian school.

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