This was a fun read. This is part of my economics mini-series of reading. Freakonomics was a good read because it was a lot of socioeconomic trends. This post is a placeholder for a more thought out review. Written 7/12/22..whoops!
The book reviewed informational disadvantages (p.73)
Funny right now - p.76 in reference to the success of civil rights and feminist movements, "It has become so unfashionable to discriminate against certain groups that all but the most insensitive people take pains to at least appear fair minded, at least in public,"
"We associate truth with convenience," (p.86) quote from John Kenneth Galbraith.
The chapter about abortion and crime, Chapter 4, explained how through the 1980s and 1990s, crime struck the country. "Between 1980 and 2000, there was a fifteenfold increase in the number of people sent to prison on drug charges," and many other sentences were longer than typically directed (p.121). Between years of philosophical explanations of why crime began to decrease, abortion's legalization caught up. About 20 years after abortion became legal, crime in America decreased. People who are able to plan for their families and create a safe, healthy environment for a child are far less likely to produce a child who commits crime than one who does not have access to family planning services.
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