Just over 9 yards

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!

Kite store in Chicago (it’s really not that windy there, really)

No, and the sample size isn’t terribly relevant. Yes, you could create a sample for which your conclusion was true, but it would hardly be the only possible set, or even the most likely.

As for symmetry, you seem to be ignoring the fact that for each mother or father, the relationship between parent and child is (potentially) one-to-many. Each parent can have many children. Therefore, many children can report estrangement to a single parent. This is one reason the numbers don’t match. Of course, things could go the other way, for example, where one child is estranged from two parents.

The relationship is not as symmetric as you suggest.

You did your subtraction very well, but why you subtracted one number from the other, and the conclusion that it meant anything at all, was wrong.

Let’s look at a simple example. Two parents have five children together. The three eldest children are estranged from the mother. That means that 50% of the parents are estranged from a child, and 60% of the children are estranged from a parent.

Following the logic of your post, you’d subtract 50 from 60 and get 10. Okay…exactly what would this 10 represent? You seem to think that it would say something meaningful about 10% of the parents, which is nonsensical.

That’s…not how math works

Over the years, I’ve put on a few pounds. The way I figure it, I’m sequestering carbon.

incarnate

Either you mean incarcerate, or else it is one hell of a gateway