Try this 4.2: Statements 1, 2, 5, 7

1. The sidewalk is disappearing as a feature of the American residential landscape. New housing developments have them only if a township requires them of the developer.

-Increasing population density is increasing land value, thus sidewalks may no longer be considered worth the space they require.

-The safety of pedestrians will be at an increasing risk, as they will have to share the road with vehicles and bicyclists for walking space.

-Reflector sales will skyrocket.

2. New house designs are tending increasingly toward open plans in which the kitchen is not separated from the rest of the house. New house designs continue to have a room called the living room, usually a space at the front of the house near the front door, but many (not all) also have a separate space called the family room, which is usually in some part of the house farther removed from the front door and closer to the kitchen.

-House designs are co-evolving with society's trends.

-The need for a living room has been a long staple to house design.

-The living room's position by the front door is welcoming to guests too intimidated to venture deeply into a host's home for comfort.

-On the other hand, the family room is elsewhere to serve as a place not necessarily for new guests, but for residents, friends and family. Its position is at the heart of the home. Its proximity to the kitchen is of practicality.

-Kitchens are losing their importance in the home, because a large portion of meals nowadays are purchased. Homemade cooking is declining in this busy world. Traditionally, women cook the meals, but as female employment and workforce gender equality continue to increase, there are less "traditional" cooks around to utilize kitchens.

5. An increasing number of juveniles - people younger than eighteen - are being tried and convicted as adults, rather than as minors, in America, with the result that more minors are serving adult sentences for crimes they committed while still in their teens.

-American justice frequently adjudicates exceptions, and follows a loose constructionist interpretation of laws that define differing treatments between minors and adults.

-Juvenile criminality is recklessly increasing.

-There must be quite a bit of debate about this subject.

7. Linguists have long commented on the tendency of women's speech to use rising inflection at the end of statements as if the statements were questions. An actual command form - Be home by midnight! - thus becomes a question instead. What are we to make of the fact that in recent years younger men (under thirty) have begun to end declarative statements and command forms with rising inflections?

-Women carry a weaker tone of voice; they are less commanding and less confident.

-Males are becoming weaker, becoming less commanding, and losing confidence. They are becoming more effeminate.

-There is a growing trend towards androgyny.

-The traditional concept of masculinity is being challenged, and is losing its powerful status in society.

-Rugged men of the past would scoff at today's "girly man" in homophobic disgust.

I must add, to save my reputation from claims of misogyny, bigotry, and perhaps stupidity, that many of these listed implications are not of my personal opinion. Merely, they serve as examples of another person's possible interpretations.