As i read Freakonomics I could not stop talking to my co workers and family about how Levitt and Dubner looked at topics in ways that people just do not look at things. It makes so much sense its astonishing how experts do not think like they did. As they explained how the drop in crime was so dramatic and no expert predicted nor new what it was caused from brought so many questions to me.
So as Levitt and Dubner went through the top ten reasons experts wrote about in magazines that were the cause of the crime drop rate all made sense to me and were logical in why experts said why they caused the crime drop. But the authors looked at all these alleged causes and discarded then all and took a different view on the case. As they realized that abortion was a major factor in the 1990 crime drop it makes a ton of sense because of the babies who would have been born into the lifestyle of many typical criminals. This abortion situation is very controversial because it is a topic that has been discussed and argued for years between pro life vs. pro choices is a topic that can bring heated conversations because of some background such as religion and culture.
I completely agree with the authors and the view of the book because to me the babies that would have been born without the abortion would have lived hard lives (single moms, low income, teen mom, unsafe environment). While this abortion situation is very controversial i think that it is correct to have an abortion in situations where it would be unsafe to have a baby that would grow up ill nurtured or in a dangerous situation. The way the authors looked at this topic in Freakonomics was very interesting to me and kept me turning the pages and i could not put the book down because alls i wanted to do was see if the questions i had were correct.
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