To Verify…
January 1, 1990
A column of current statistics selected especially for Christian communicators
Percentage of teenagers who say they throw pennies they receive into the garbage: 13
Percentage of American women who say that if they could afford it, they would rather stay at home with their children: 88
Percentage of couples getting married between 1970 and 1985 who had lived together first: 40
Amount that Americans gambled legally in 1988: $208 billion
Gross national product of Austria for 1988: $109 billion
Percentage of Americans who abstain from the use of alcohol: 35
Percentage of Americans who would remarry their spouse if they had it to do over again: 85
Federal prison inmates in America, in 1978: 277,473
In 1988: 577,474
For every dollar budgeted in 1970, the amount you must budget in 1989, simply to stay even with inflation: $3.23
Percentage of young adults who say they were forced to have sexual intercourse at least once before age 20: 7
Number of Bibles in the average American home: 4
What Men & Women Talk About
Men and women don't necessarily want to discuss the same subjects, according to a recent poll of 1,000 adults by Bruskin Associates.
The leading discussion subject for men was news events (talked about by 71 percent of respondents in the previous week), followed by work (68 percent).
Women, on the other hand, talked about food (76 percent) and health (72 percent).
Men were far more likely to have talked about sports (65 percent to women's 42 percent); women were more likely to have discussed personal problems (52 percent to men's 40 percent).
But many subjects-television, money, and celebrities, for example-were discussed about the same amount by either sex. And neither men nor women talked much about sex (men: 2 percent; women: 0.8 percent) ...
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