Skewed Statistics and Nuptials Nonsense

Lesson of the week. Save, save, save. I lost 2 posts last week, I should have learned to save the draft after I lost the first one. Moving on.....

Some bored journalists at the Nation decided sometime last week to post an article saying that 63% of Kenyan women will never get married. I think that is a big bag of money back gauranteed cow dung!

There is this saying that goes, "there's lies, lies and damn statistics!". I would like to see the size of the sample they used, if it went across all social classes, religions and parts of Kenya. I do agree that the number of marriages may be going down among the middle class but we all know that Kenya isn't a middle class nation at all. There is a large percentage of Kenyans who are pushing the 1 dollar day budget, but the fact that they are doing so doesn't prevent them from getting hitched and having kids. More of them may opt for traditional ceremonies or come we stay but they still get hitched. It's the middle class folk among us who are experiencing the down turn in wedding matrimony numbers. There are a number of factors ranging from men wanting to get the money to "maintain" women, women wanting to hook up with "established" men, people spending more time on their careers and the lessening pressure to get married in many quarters.

Anyway I feel talking anymore about that shambles of a survey will give it's findings some legitimacy. Besides what's this hulaballo about marriage about anyhow? People seem to be so into giving relationship advice, finding you the "one", telling you how to keep the one and all sorts of half assed advice. That reminds me of sometime during the days when I thought that the Acolyte could be guided by organised religion and went for a church meeting. Yes, I had my church days. Anyway after the meeting we got to chatting and that topic came about (is it me or are church folk just in love with the concept of getting married?); anyhow the girl I was talking to says, "you are not whole until you find the other person God has created for you" at that point I gave her the Acolyte eyebrow and said, " I was not created half a person" and then proceeded to add insult to injury by saying that if what she said made sense there would be one man for every woman born. We all know that mortality rates according to gender differ. Some other churches even have Singles Ministries, how come I didn't see Singles mentioned among the groups that should be ministered to and among the first ministries that were created in the early church. Anyone out there would like to answer that for me?

The End is nigh...........


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