Statistics Canada: Couples W/ Children Down From 43.6 to 26.5 Percent of Households in Just Ten Years

DavidByron · 2012-09-19T22:10:09+00:00

Stats in the title are false. Misleading article is the culprit.

couples with children have continued their decline, down to 26.5 per cent of all households

was juxtaposed with,

Just 10 years ago, couples with children under 24 years old made up 43.6 per cent of all families (not including one-person households)

The drop was from 43.6% down to 39.2% as a percentage of all families and presumably from 29.5% down to 26.5% of all households.

FascistComicBookHero · 2012-09-19T20:58:39+00:00

First time poster, and I clearly need to work on my reddit posting technique. It appears that the text I tried to include with this submission got lost somewhere, and now I can't figure out how to edit it back in. If somebody could instruct me on how to do this, that'd be awesome. In the meantime, here is the text I meant to include originally:

Many frightening statistics just released by the Canadian government: as already mentioned in the title, traditional couples with children are in freefall; there are now more people living alone in Canada than there are couples with children; ten percent of children now live in "reconstituted arrangements"; numbers of single parents increased by 8% in the last 5 years alone (80% of them being mothers, BTW). To top it all off, the article repeatedly interjects obnoxious quotes from some wedding planner, such as "the modern family is changing, and I think it's a wonderful thing." No countervailing attitudes are ever mentioned or considered.

EDIT: Ok, things are explained pretty well here. I knew I was doing something wrong. Can't do much about it now apart from deleting everything and starting over again. Think it'll be OK with leaving things as they are; sorry about the mess.

Title	Statistics Canada: Couples W/ Children Down From 43.6 to 26.5 Percent of Households in Just Ten Years
Author	FascistComicBookHero
Upvotes	12
Comments	7
Date	September 19, 2012 8:49 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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