Several days ago, Focus on the Family released a reaction to an article written by Jennifer Chrisler, of Family Pride, in Time magazine, posted December 14th. Ms. Chrisler’s article was a rebuttal to a controversial article by James Dobson regarding Mary Chaney’s pregnancy. Dobson has been widely criticized among gay activists for misquoting research.
In Jennifer Chrisler’s original Time article, she wrote:
According to the 2000 census, the vast majority — more than 75% — of American children, are being raised in families that differ in structure from two married, heterosexual parents and their biological children.
However, in the current Time article online, she wrote:
According to the 2000 census, the vast majority — more than 75% — of American households differ in structure from two married, heterosexual parents and their biological children.
I discovered this discrepancy this morning when I was preparing to blog about the Focus on the Family rebuttal.
Maggi Gallagher posted a letter from Jennifer Chrisler explaining a bit more about the matter. In Ms. Chrisler’s letter, she acknowledges her error and asked Time to correct it.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackYeah. The “75%” of households that are not “two parents and two children” is manipulating statistics.
It includes people like my husband and I whose kids no longer live at home, single people who live alone, etc.
And even many of the “children born of single mothers” actually have a dad at home but not married to the man.
As Mark Twain said: There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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