Lies, damnable lies and statistics

The other day the "Only 23% of US households are children living with their married parents" canard got trotted out.

Yeah, it's an accurate number. Comes straight off the census site. What isn't being told by that number:

only 35% of US households actually HAVE children in them!
And only 7% of households are single female with children.

So, we have 5% of US households where kids are living with adoptive parents, fathers, grandparents or *gasp* same-sex parents.

Somehow, this fails to strike me as a crisis.

I also pointed out that 28% of the American population is Baby Boomers and they're all empty-nesting.

I love making the Heads of the Unthinking spin. Maybe they'll twist right off and I can mount them on my roundhouse wall like a good hutproud Irishwoman.

Imponderable

Why is it I can shirk my duties shamelessly for days, weeks, months, and nobody says Boo. Yet then when I make an effort to shape up, improve and do right, everyone starts coming down on me to micromanage and bully?

I'm so confused. Apparently, as my mother found out, it's acceptable to have a garage packed to the rafters, but not to clean it out and set the bags on the curb 3 days before trash pick up. (the neighbors called code-enforcement on her the very day she started cleaning)

It's like the whole universe suddenly notices and goes "oops, Angel's getting ideas that she's improvable, time to kick her again."

Fic: Top This (Pg-13)

5 minute challenge, must include tap-dancing. Slash.
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