{"id":12,"date":"2009-04-17T00:14:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T00:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-11-05T13:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T13:53:48","slug":"more-single-mums-than-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"More single mums than marriages&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE number of young women having children has for the first time exceeded the number getting married, official figures revealed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of those in Britain aged 25 to 29 found that 24 per cent had tied the knot before 25, while 30 per cent had at least one child.<\/p>\n<p>But of women in their mid-to-late 30s, 45 per cent were married before 25, while only a third were mums. The survey was conducted between 2001 and 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were from the Office for National Statistics in its annual Social Trends study of how Britain is changing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article2379728.ece\">From The Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a load of balls&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a load of statistics that actually mean didly squat. Why can&#8217;t laws be introduced to only allow these things to be used in context with enough data to make them of some use? I guess the Suns article wouldn&#8217;t be quite as eye catching with standard deviations thrown in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one for you: THE number of young women having children has for the first time exceeded the number getting married, official figures revealed yesterday. A survey of those in Britain aged 25 to 29 found that 24 per cent had tied the knot before 25, while 30 per cent had at least one child. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unstatistical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}