How Many Women Are Married?

From Patrick McIlheran

The sad part about this is that most of my family
neighbors and friends that heard about the origonal
article believed it. It's a sad comentary when people believe
everything they hear.
From Rush;
"If you believe nothing , you believe everything"
How true it is


THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2007, 2:52 p.m.
No, Mrs. America, you’re not outnumbered
Katherine Kersten takes issue with that New York Times
report that more than half of all American women are now
living without husbands.First, the statistic is dicey, she
points out:

Critics such as Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist at the Acton
Institute in Michigan, blew the whistle on the story,” Kersten writes.

“The fact is, a clear majority of American women over 20 are married,
according to the Census Bureau.“So how did (Sam) Roberts, the
Times reporter, reach the magic 51 percent ‘tipping point’? In the
pool of marriage-age women, he included more than 9 million girls
between 15 and 19, many still in high school. Then he added 11
million widows, and — get this — more than two million women
called ‘married/spouse absent.’ These are women whose husbands
are temporarily away, on military duty for example, in Iraq or
Afghanistan, or even in prison.