"75 percent of Black women marry before they turn 35" report says
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The point is that the original data reported on black female marriage rates were skewed to make it seem like most never get married even though they do by the time they are 35.Looks like "Post before you read the article" squad in this bytch.
The article states:
One, the article begins with them telling you their 75% number is skewed for this article. And doesn't define "age groups we don't really expect to be married."
You can get legally married at 18.
Then, it throws in a number about small towns.
This article is poorly written.
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And the auto play of the video of feminist Jemele Hill
Sure, this article is super unbias /sarcasm.
The article should read;
Out of the black women who get married...75% of them marry before 35.
Here's what the Root link actually reads;
Again, the Roots admits the 42% number is true and they never tell us what age range they're actually looking at.
This makes zero sense and they just get off on throwing percentages around.
So, because--between 2000 to 2009--you found that 75% of black women over 35 are married, they that means only 25% of them are never married despite the fact that from 18 years old and up only 42% of ALL BLACK WOMEN are married????
Mothafukka 75% of 42 is 31%!
Again, ya'll don't read the article or the links and stats.
Instead of ignoring the problem (it's the white man's numbers!) or reading ONE article and letting confirmation basis take over...how about he actually fix this issue?
It’s skewed because most blacks aren’t getting married at younger ages. But when you adjust the age ranges it shows that most black women do get married eventually. That’s a far cry from telling them that most black women will be alone forever sensationalism doom and gloom reports that saturate media targeting black women.
If you want solutions to this trend that black women were initially leading in but is now becoming increasingly consistent with other populations in delaying marriage, you’ll need to identify the factors impacting delays in marriage. And I’ll give you a hint...it’s not the negative propaganda spread about black women in the media.
It’s the economy being shyt and causing millennials to delay certain rites of passage of adulthood to save, build financially, and establish themselves. There’s also a very large disparity in ratio of black men to black women at all ages due to black male violent deaths and unfair black male incarceration which impacts black marriage rates as well. So we’ll also need answers for that too.
There is also a geographic issue at play because the ratio of blk men to blk women in larger cities is even worse, but blk women in small towns don’t have these issues as indicated in that article.
Yet in spite of even these obstacles, black women STILL end up marrying black men at comparable rates by the time they are 35 which is actually impressive when you think about the odds stacked against us. It takes time for people in our race to get it together when they go to horrible school systems, are plagued by violence and racist jail systems taking millions of their men out of the market, and facing an already bad job market in a shytty economy compounded by racial discrimination, zero generational wealth, and added responsibility of taking care of elders and family members.
the op is based on 2010 census. your screenshot is from 1986 - 2009. I already posted the census link to where the info in op came from
i guess you're also in post before reading squad
From the article;
From this link (which the basis of the Root article they link to);
@Booksnrain
@EndGame
Nice Try
And that chart is totally relevant because the article cherry-picked data and I showed ALL the data in context to what they don't talk about.
Again, I'm not trying to shyt on OUR PEOPLE, but, this is an example of confirmation bias.
Instead of reading the data, you're just, lazily, trying to poke holes in my post....which is a lot easier than reading the report the article is based on.
Nope, this is a nothing burger.
THIS is what we should be talking about.
Ya'll hate Kevin Samuels, but, his point stands; white, Asian and Latino milenials live in the same reality as we do and they still get married twice as much as us?
WHY?
Another nothing burger.
Ya'll keep showing me you haven't taken the time to read the study that the article is based on.
You cannot write an article literally cherry-picking data from a chart on a 24 page report because it makes a point you want.
And again, even though 75% of the black women who eventually get married--not 75% of all adult black women--that still 75% of 45% of ALL adult black women.
That's my problem; the part they pick out is obtuse.
"Shut up and just take the little bit of good news we got"
This is why I don't like "positive threads" on thecoli. Don't worry, I'll see myself out and stop ruining the fun.
I know the article they were responding too. Harvard statisticians came through to clarify why the reporting of these numbers were misleading years ago.From the article;
From this link (which the basis of the Root article they link to);
@Booksnrain
@EndGame
Nice Try
And that chart is totally relevant because the article cherry-picked data and I showed ALL the data in context to what they don't talk about.
Again, I'm not trying to shyt on OUR PEOPLE, but, this is an example of confirmation bias.
Instead of reading the data, you're just, lazily, trying to poke holes in my post....which is a lot easier than reading the report the article is based on.
I also addressed reasons for this in my post above this one.
What are you talking about?Nope, this is a nothing burger.
THIS is what we should be talking about.
Ya'll hate Kevin Samuels, but, his point stands; white, Asian and Latino milenials live in the same reality as we do and they still get married twice as much as us?
WHY?
Another nothing burger.
Ya'll keep showing me you haven't taken the time to read the study that the article is based on.
You cannot write an article literally cherry-picking data from a chart on a 24 page report because it makes a point you want.
And again, even though 75% of the black women who eventually get married--not 75% of all adult black women--that still 75% of 45% of ALL adult black women.
That's my problem; the part they pick out is obtuse.
"Shut up and just take the little bit of good news we got"
This is why I don't like "positive threads" on thecoli. Don't worry, I'll see myself out and stop ruining the fun.
Since WHEN DO BLACKS LIVE IN THE SAME REALITY AS BLACKS?!
There is no fun here.I feel like you all over the place. I mentioned explanations for this and you dismiss them.
The central issue is the economy and that impacts us far worse than other communities. How can that be dismissed or ignored?
Also how can the skewed ratio between black men and black women be ignored in marriage rates either if you are looking for true explanations and solutions. We are literally missing millions of men? So how the hell would black women make up that difference.
“They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity”
Stop comparing our community to others when we got much different shyt going on. Luckily both incarceration rates and early mother births are down but either we want to have a real talk about this or we don’t.
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the link you provide includes data from the 80s/90s. i'm sure some of those adults/middle aged folks are dead by nowFrom the article;
From this link (which the basis of the Root article they link to);
@Booksnrain
@EndGame
Nice Try
And that chart is totally relevant because the article cherry-picked data and I showed ALL the data in context to what they don't talk about.
Again, I'm not trying to shyt on OUR PEOPLE, but, this is an example of confirmation bias.
Instead of reading the data, you're just, lazily, trying to poke holes in my post....which is a lot easier than reading the report the article is based on.
someone marrying 2005-2009 data would be reflected in the 2010 census, as that's half the years the census is collecting info on
your other post assumes people getting married don't already have kids
source: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/...rs/2012/demo/sehsd-wp2012-12_presentation.pdf
"2010 percent never married, for 35 and over–
Black women: 25 percent –
White women: 8 percent"
no one is arguing those are good numbers. they're just not as bad as people assume
Thats a weird way to say that
So if they got divorced, even after a few months they still count right
I'd like to see a stat on how many black women with children are married CURRENTLY.
I want to believe this but my reality shows me something very different
Census shows a little less than 25% of black women are married. But OPs stats are indicating only 25% of those marriages are at age 35 or above or a little under 7% total
Kevin Samuels calls age 35+ “no man’s land” for a reason.
Also, census indicates black women initiate divorce at an 80% clip
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Study is VERY suspicious. If that’s true why is the black illegitimacy rate so high? Something isn’t adding up
Kill ya mother and yaself u hoe ass c00n
Look at blackdemographics.com not a Yale old study
only 26% of black women are married
only 26% of black women are married
Man stfu with all that
Typing shyt for nothing
They're "feel good stats". What the OP posted does not get to root of the issue in our community.....WHICH IS FAMILY.Census shows a little less than 25% of black women are married. But OPs stats are indicating only 25% of those marriages are at age 35 or above or a little under 7% total
Kevin Samuels calls age 35+ “no man’s land” for a reason.
Also, census indicates black women initiate divorce at an 80% clip
What really saddens me tho is how the marriage rate in the black community dropped after the 60s....black women were the most married before that.