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Fox's Liguori, About to Step Into the Senate's Line of Fire

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· One out of six parents use the V-chip technology that allows parents to block adult-rated programming from their children.

· Nearly 90 percent of parents with kids under 11 say they monitor what their kids watch on TV.

· 75 percent of parents tell their kids they can't watch TV until they finish their homework.

And, our favorite:

· 68 percent of homes in the country don't have kids under age 18 living in them to start with.

As is usual with these hearings, Liguori's statistics will be canceled out by the statistic-spewing of his opponents. We've got money on Martin bringing up that 70 percent of respondents in a poll conducted for the Associated Press said there was too much violence on television.

And someone's sure to mention the recently released Kaiser Family Foundation study that found 43 percent of parents think violence in the media contributes "a lot" to young people's behavior and two-thirds of parents say they favor government regulations to limit the amount of sex and violence on TV during the early evening hours.

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