STATS

Avg. American Spends:

4 min per day in conv. between couples; 1 min. per day in conv. w/ children (Menninger Clinic, 2-96); parents spend 17 hrs. per wk. with their children in 1991, compared to 30 hrs. per wk. in 1965 (CNN, 26 July 1991)

18 days per year in a car (avg. drive to work: 24 min.; avg. time in traffic to work: 62 min.; avg. time per year in traffic: 38 hrs.)

Watching 30 hrs. of television per wk.; women watch most, teenagers watch the least (ABC Radio News, 28 Oct. 1991); teens watch 10 hrs. tv per week (Newsweek, 10 May 1999); Children watch 2 hrs. TV per day (Stars and Stripes); Avg. American watches 1500 hrs. per year (2003 Guiness Book)

8.6 hrs. sleeping, 3.7 hrs. working, 5.1 hrs. in leisure (2.5 hrs. watching TV, 40 min. socializing, 20 min. reading, 20 min. on sports and recreation, 20 min. relaxing and thinking, 20 min. playing games, and 30 min. on other leisure activities). Working parents: 7.5 hrs. sleeping, 2.6 hrs. in leisure, 1.3 hrs. caring for others, and 1 hr. on housework.

Leading

65% of the people follow the example

25% of the people follow the rules

10% of the people follow principles

Three Reasons why Teens come to Church

Their parents tell them to

It's the thing to do

They want to

Marriage/Family

Divorce

4% in year 1

33% in years 2-4

20% in year 5

31% in year 10 (no cohab.); 40% in year 10 (cohab.) (CNN, 25 July 2002)

Peaks at 3, 7, 10, and 15 years

More divorces 2 weeks after Christmas than any other time--expenses (Dr. Hollis Cook's class notes)

USA rate--1/2 (5 per 1000 people) (World Almanac)

Military Rate--6/10 (50% married, 60% on second+ marriage) (300 per 1000) (Family Life Chaplain, Ft. Drum, 1996)

Couples should be married 2-5 years before having their first child (Jack Balswick, The Family)

Military Marriage Rate

Vietnam: 15%

Present: 65%

Interracial marriages

71% bm/wf; 14% wm/af (Baltimore Sun, 3-26-06); 1.5% interracial marriages in U.S. (.4% BW); divorce rate slightly higher than same race marriages (J. Ross Eshleman, The Family)

Black male-White female: 200k marriages

White male-Black female: 100k marriages

Enlisted, age 20--20%; age 25--65%

Officer, 77%

Raised by Single parent: (ABC News, 13 Dec. 1994)

2x more likely to be in trouble with the law

2x more likely to be a teen mother

2x more likely to have emotional problems

2x more likely to drop out of school

60% of nation is married

40% of nation is single

10% Sep/Div

20% NBM

5% Shacking

5% Widowed (CDC, “Marital Status and Health: United States, 1999-2002”)

Domestic

20% of U.S. move every year (250 mil. pop. in USA) (James Combs, Winter Semester notes, 1992)

75% of U.S. live in city

John (New Testament) has a vocab. of ca. 640 words (the least of the gospel authors)

Finances

Avg. American Allowance (Dr. H. Cook/Newsweek, 10 May 1999)

under 11: 2.90/wk.

11-15: 14/wk.

16-19: 26/wk.

Teens: $50/wk. (Ohio State University)

Lifetime earnings: (CNN.com, 2002)

Professional Degree-4.5 mil. (57k/year)

MA-2.5 mil.

BA-2 mil. (3% of enlisted; 75% of millionaires are college grads-Oprah, Dec. 95) (150k NW) (45.5k/year)

AA-(30k/year)

HS-1 mil. (24.5k/year)

No HS Diploma-.6 (30k NW)

Avg. Fam. NW: 95,000

Avg. American Salary, $50,000 ($25/hr.)

(http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/04/23/cb.jobs.20.hr/index.html)

Salary (U.S.)

1%-300k

5%-100k

10%-70k (0-5; 0-4/16)

25%-40K (median income)

50%-20K

Income (U.S., 65 and older) (12/18/05 Baltimore Sun)

10%--50k and over

10%--35-50k

10%--25-35k

20%--15-25k

20%--10-15k

25%--5-10k

5%--under 5k

Taxes

Fed-St w/0 exemp. .106-.022

Fed-St w/1 exemp. .077-.024

Fed-St w/2 exemp. .017-.010

Soc. Sec.=.077

Avg. American Tax: $7k (2006)

Savings

20% of age 53 and up have $10,000 or less in savings

20% of age 32 and down have $50,000 or more in savings

Average nest-egg at retirement: $55,000 (CBS News, 5-19-04)

Median value of all retirement accounts: $27,000 (Tribune, 4-08)

Credit Card Debt

Avg. person: $1,800

College Student: $1,600

Age 25-34: $4,000

Avg. Family: $9,300 (USA Today, 12-30-05)

60% carry a balance

Avg. U.S. family has $33,000 overall debt

Avg. U.S. credit score: 691

Avg. car payment on a $24,000 car: $487.82

Avg. student loan

Undergraduate: 10K

Seminary: 20K

Law: 40K

Medicine: 100K

BLS Consumer Expenditures Survey (2003)

Item Inc.: 90k Age: 50

(Age: 46) (Inc.: 70k) Avg. %

Mortgage 8,850 6,900 33 (comb. housing)

Auto 6,000 4,600 12

Pensions/SS 8,700 5,400 9

Home Imp. 5,000 3,000 -

Groceries 4,150 3,700 7.7

Healthcare 3,300 2,500 6

Utilities 3,780 3,300 -

Dining 3,700 2,700 5.4

Entertainment 3,600 2,400 5

Clothes 2,500 2,000 4

Giving 2,200 1,600 3.4

Education 1,000 1,400 2

Alcohol/Tobacco 1,000 1,000 2

Misc. 1,000 1,000 1.5

Personal Care 1,000 1,000 1.3

Insurance 1,000 1.000 1

Total 66,000 50,000

Average American Family spends $150/mo. on dining out (2001)

Average cost of vaginal birth in U.S.: $10,000

Average cost of wedding in U.S.: $25,000

Average cost of funeral in U.S.: $6,500

Spending habits of young married couples with children (both spouses 18 to 25)

Average after-tax income, $19,783

Average annual spending, $21,401 (USA Today, 20 May 1991)

Average Family spends $1,000 and one week on vacation (half travel with children) (TIAA, June 2003)

Sleep (Newsweek, 10-17-07)

Age Natural Bedtime Sleep Needed Actual Sleep

0-1 7:30 14:30 13

1-2 7:30 13 12

3-6 7:30 12 10

7-11 8:30 10:30 9:30

12-17 11 9 7:30 weekdays

9 weekends

18-54 11 8 7 weekdays

7:30 weekends

55-84 9 8 7 weekdays

7:30 weekends

Wake: 5:30 (spending 2 hours at home before going to work) (www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/03/sleep.job.ap/index.html)

Child Growth

Roll over 2-5 mo.

Says Mama or Dada 4- 10 mo.

Crawls 7-13 mo.

Stands with support 5-12 mo.

Stands alone 10-16 mo.

Walks 10-16 mo.

Drinks from cup 10-16 mo.

Pedals Tricycle 2-5 yrs.

First dry day

Swim

Read

Tie Shoe

Ride Bike

Soldier's load should be 30-45 % of his weight (JRTC AAR)

Suicide (ann/U.S.):

Military--15.2/100,000

Civilians--10.7/100,000

1950-5/100,000; 1990 13/100,000

High risk--W/M 24-44

Peak month--June (85/day)

Low month--December (75/day)

Denominational Adherents (US)

Baptists: 37 mil.

JW: 1 mil.

LDS: 4.5 mil

RC: 60 mil.

Military Service

22/43 Presidents have served as Military Officers

12 were former Generals

1950: 50% of all males had served

Present: 5% enter service

Vietnam: 75% of Congress had served

Present: 25% of Congress has served

Education

25% of US has bachelors degree

80% of US has high school dipl.

(L. Rukeyser, Book of Lists, 1997)

Geography/Astronomy

Each person in the world can live in a house 40 ft. x 40 ft. and all would fit in the state of Texas.

Circumference of earth-24,000 mi.

Diameter of earth-8,000 mi.

Moon-240,000 mi. from earth

Sun-93 mil. mi. from earth

Closest star-4.3 light years (Alpha Centauri)

Milky Way Galaxy-100,000,000,000 stars, 100,000 light years in dia., 10,000 light years thick

Population of earth-5,500,000,000

Earth land mass total-57,900,000 sq. mi.

Land mass of Texas-267,000 sq. mi.

Inhabital land mass-51,900,000 sq. mi. (no Antartica)

100 people/sq. mi. on inhabitable earth=280,000 sq. ft./person=6.5 acres/person

(source: The 1988 Almanac)

50% of teens remain virgins until age 17; 7% of boys/21% of girls remain virgins until marriage (CNN, 5 Jan. 2001)

Weight

Avg. man--185 lbs.

Avg. woman--150 lbs.

Military Spending

$11,000 to recruit one soldier

$25,000 to train one soldier

Lose 30% first-termers

Communication

Words 7%

Tone 38%

Body Lang. 55%

We remember what we:

Hear 10%

See 50%

Do (or say) 90%

Effectiveness:

Face to face 80%

Telephone 60%

Written word 40%