Let’s say for simple math that AA’s population was 2 million people in all three time periods. I remember MySpace AA pages and ICQ from earlier this century. First and foremost I have longterm recovery and I am quite active in AA – thus I may be biased, but so might you…. I collected all this triennial survey information from years gone by from my visit to GSO, earlier this year. BCA membership plateaued in 1964 and lost 72% of members by 1997. Here are a few that were not mentioned. Mutual-aid, Bowling Leagues and Trends in Social Capital. As well as euphoria, at times like these Putnam cautions that, “Social dislocation can easily breed a reactionary form of nostalgia.” Especially for older members of society, for whom adaptation to modern ways seems more risky, there is a craving for the good ol’ days. I guess that I shouldn’t be when I look around in meetings and see mostly white people. One other possibility: Market saturation. Statistics will tell you what people do but torture stats all you like and they still won’t reveal why people do what they do. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life, AA Public Information: “Let it Begin With Me”. Thanks Joe. And in 2014, the average American was older: 37.7 years of age. ps. Instead, let’s accord each that respect and love which is truly the due of every human being as (s)he tries to make (her/)his way to the light (and despite the overused religious metaphor of the “light of God,” Bill preceded this statement with a celebration of the atheists, agnostics and new members of every different creed and culture, hence, light can just as easily mean clarity, sobriety, sanity, vision or any number of secular synonyms).”. We are all virtually nameless, no-one knows exactly how many members each group has, how many are members of two or more groups, who drops out, who comes in, who moves to Europe, to New York, British Colombia & so on, who changes cities, who dies. and, (2) I am not a Christian and have NEVER felt put down for my beliefs. At BCA’s peak, they attracted 83 out of every 1,000 males over 20 years-of-age. Western Society as a whole with the exception of certain pockets, mostly in USA! Stewardship: Preparing AA for 2050 or recreating 1950? On the one hand, optimists enthused that the new technologies of communication would allow human sympathy wider scope.

Individual and Group Membership . Excellent article in which most factors are cited for AA loss of market share. The book looks at declining community and civic engagement in the USA. The numbers are no good if they don’t give an accurate picture.

If my experience is any example this morning the only ones who will be joining are the truly religious. Americans and AA members have maintained the same pace over the last 31 years (AAs being 32% older that the average American in both 1983 and 2014). We are growing quickly, adding meetings and we get a lot of younger people. The second, to make certain the bat-shit crazy things I heard in the first one, wasn’t, in actual fact, a reality show prank. Similar climbs in membership, plateaus and sharp drops can be found in Jaycees, Kiwanis, Lions, Masons and Shiners. This bodes extremely well for the future of AA as our unorthodox message of possible sobriety in AA grows and evolves. But this is just my own recovery – and whatever works for others is fine. Look at how many Facebook, Google, Skype and Yahoo and Twitter recovery communities there are. I guess I will have to start doing some travelling. There has been stability in the latest decade. At 5 years of AA sobriety I was still trying to act as if I knew I was in the wrong pew, but really did not see an alternative. Laura Silverman, at eight years of sobriety, created The Sobriety Collective. So will AA, USA, and Canada. Individual and Group Membership. of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA has successfully claimed dominion over the word “spiritual” which, if you go back to its origins meant, “of breathing”, in other words, the life force. It was all human power and it’s still evident but not quite the same way it was when Bill turned his house into a BnB for guys accustomed to living and drinking in flops. There is no channel in AA for new information, knowledge and treatment modalities. I am 55 years old and have been an AA member (sober) since 2001. I find these sorts of themes and concerns practical in that they help form broader perspectives, and thus aide the solo heathen in an AA group to not be overwhelmed by often very local, very hyper-religious ideologies. I think the primary benefit from the steps, if used, is they get you to DO SOMETHING. It could have been, he knew he would have doubters scanning his pages so he obfuscated its actual intent (consciously or unconsciously), Christian conversion, by allowing for “a Power Greater than ourselves”. Membership in professional organizations has lost its glitter, too.

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