The story is here. 

For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.

The studies are clear, the story claims, but if you read it carefully, only if you use some very creative math.

For one thing it is based on this equation:

Among the more than 117 million women over the age of 15, according to the marital status category in the Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey, 63 million are married. Of those, 3.1 million are legally separated and 2.4 million said their husbands were not living at home for one reason or another.

Age 15?  Why the heck are they counting high school kids and saying "look they are not married".

Well duh.  Why should they be married?  Sharia Law and forced marriages maybe?

That brings the number of American women actually living with a spouse to 57.5 million, compared with the 59.9 million who are single or whose husbands were not living at home when the survey was taken in 2005.

Not the kicker:  Husbands not living at home (when the survey was taken".  No account of why, where they are, how long they will be gone, and whether they will be returning. 

This by the way includes happily married military spouses whose husbands are deployed and similarly married civilian women whose husbands work overseas part time as contractors.  I would have a hard time equating this to a choice by the woman.

Some of those situations, which the census identifies as “spouse absent” and “other,” are temporary, and, of course, even some people who describe themselves as separated eventually reunite with their spouses.

So what is the point?

“Since women continue to outlive men, they have reached the nonmarital tipping point — more nonmarried than married,” Dr. Frey said. “This suggests that most girls growing up today can look forward to spending more of their lives outside of a traditional marriage.”

Of course you won’t see this at Kos or HuffPo…Make note of the desire for Sharia law, the treatment of women, the treatment of gays and the overall arrogance and intolerance.

Ask yourself this:  If a Christian fundamentalist preacher, or a Catholic priest had made any of the statements, how upset would gays, women and most liberals be?  How many would protest and rage against the intolerance/

Now compare.  How much political outrage is spoken against the Muslims?  How many speeches, protests and parades are done to protest Islam because of these beliefs.

On the other hand, how much effort is made to understand Islam, to relate to Islam, to emote Islam and to tolerate Islam.

Then,  when you see the disparity, when you see the double standard, ask yourself why? 

Individual links to all three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MSFbhIG-sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi5DWt3b0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TjzCcTkE8

Hat Tip Hot Air

Also at:  STA, Riehl World and Michelle Malkin