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To: carranza2 who wrote (93883)	1/5/2005 5:39:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

I don't think children raised in a single parent home will ever do as well as children raised in an unbroken home I expect that is so. Still neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned. I'm trying to isolate the impact of marriage. To do that you can't compare intact families with broken families. You must compare intact unmarried families with intact married families. These other variables, while interesting and important to the rearing of children, just clutter up the matter of my question about why we would marry in the face of Sowell's observations about the conditions of non-marriage. The only answer I've gotten to that question is that it prevents the offspring from being ridiculed for illegitimacy. I don't mean to be too cavalier about that ridicule, but it's hardly sufficient justification for impassioned defense of the institution of marriage. Much simpler to just ridicule, instead, those ignorant bigots who would ridicule those innocent kids. To the extent they're still around. I had thought society was long past that.