Bill,

Why is it that when both sides of an issue are reported (instead of one
liberal biased one), it is a bad thing? I thought we were all about Free
Speech and Freedom of the Press?  Fox News is the only network that at least
reports both sides of an issue.  The may have a bias in one direction or
another but at least they give the viewer both viewpoints.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Shanks [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Marriage Promoted as Cure to Social Woes


On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:36:02 -0800, Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103459,00.html
>
>A reason homosexual marriages will only add to the social problems.
>
>From the article above,
>"...According to 2000 census data, the rate of married households in the
>United States declined by nearly 30 percent since 1950. Married couples
>now make up an estimated 50 percent of households.
>Meanwhile, the number of unmarried partners living together has risen
>from 523,000 in 1970 to approximately 4.9 million in 2000.
>Nearly one-third of all children today are born outside of marriage, and
>more than half of U.S. children will spend all or part of their
>childhood in a broken family, according to statistics.
>The percentage of children living with mothers who have never married
>increased to 36 percent in 1996 from 7 percent in 1970, said Mary Parke,
>a researcher at the Center for Law and Social Policy.
>Rector added that a child raised by a mother who has never married is
>seven times more likely to live in poverty than a child raised by his
>biological parents in an intact marriage. ..."
>
>Since a homosexual couple can not have biological parents what does this
>say about children raised in such an environment?  The kids don't have
>much of a chance.  The same goes for children raised by a single parent.


I would not place much stock in anything reported by FoxNews Channel, the
WWF of journalism.

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