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New York Times Gets Another Story Very Wrong - This Time it’s about Marriage
Accused of “journalistic malpractice” for skewing stats to incorrectly show most women not marrying
By Peter J. Smith
NEW YORK, January 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The New York Times has once again published another 'hit piece' on the institution of marriage, alleging that for “the first time more American women are living without a husband than with one”. However, US census data for 2005 shows that the January 16th front-page story in the New York Times is just another disturbing showcase of the Times’ tolerance for “journalistic malpractice”.
According to the 2005 report “Marital Status of the Population by Sex and Age”, the United States is not yet a culture that has discarded the institution of marriage, where 60.4% of men and 56.9% of women over 18 years old are married.
However, Roberts creates his own analysis by using the Census Bureau’s “Living Arrangements of Persons 15 Years Old and Over by Selected Characteristics”, by including in his 51% figure of women living without a spouse: unmarried teenage and college girls still living with their parents, women whose husbands work out of town, are institutionalized, or are separated from husbands serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
Maybe they learned it from our administration. How many lies have they been caught in?
AAC
Originally posted by RRconservative
Originally posted by AnAbsoluteCreation
Maybe they learned it from our administration. How many lies have they been caught in?
AAC
I am not familiar with any lies within the Bush administration. I am familiar with the NY Times claiming the Bush administration lied. But then again...look at the source.
I know you are upset that I am attacking a liberal institution, like the NY Times, but the Bush-Bashing is getting old.
Earlier this month, the Census Bureau informed us that married households are no longer the majority in America. Homes headed by married couples have dipped below 50% for the first time. But while this barometer certainly indicates a sea change in how we live, the nature of the phenomenon is generally misunderstood.
Originally posted by nextguyinline
Does anyone have a subscription to the NY Times?, I can't seem to find the article in question.
THE news that 51 percent of all women live without a spouse might be enough to make you invest in cat futures.
Among women ages 25-34, 59 percent of college graduates are married, compared with 51 percent of non-college graduates, according to an analysis of the Census Bureau’s June 2006 Current Population Survey by Steven P. Martin, a sociologist at the University of Maryland. The same is true at older age groups: the difference is 75 percent to 62 percent for those ages 35-44, and 50 percent to 41 percent among those 65 and older.
51.5 percent of women are [married]
Originally posted by RRconservative
When someone states "Women living without a spouse." I assumed they where talking about unmarried women.
Pretty low for them to include 15 years old though.
Kind of Clintonian, if you ask me.
Why Are There So Many Single Americans?
THE news that 51 percent of all women live without a spouse might be enough to make you invest in cat futures.
[...]According to the census, 55 percent of men are married, down from 69.3 percent in 1960, and 51.5 percent of women are
All this leads to a happiness gap, too. According to the Marriage Project, the percentage of spouses who rate their marriage as “very happy” has dropped among those without a college education, while it has risen or held steady among those better educated.