Lies, damnable lies and statistics

[valarltd]

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.

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