Or planting the questions to presidential debates. Ask CNN.
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From: "Denys Beauchemin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Marriage Promoted as Cure to Social Woes
> At least they do not invent news like the New York Times. :) Ask
> Jayson Blair.
>
> Denys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Bill Shanks
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:29 AM
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> 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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