Race, Crime, and Fakenomics

On Facebook Willis Eschenbach observes:

According to the National Fatherhood Institute, In 2016,

• 74.3% of white children lived with both parents.
• 88.7% of Asian children lived with both parents.
• 38.7% of black children lived with both parents.

According to Critical Race Theory:

• this is all whitey's fault, and
• intact families don't matter because RACISTS!

Tony Burns says:

Have you read Freakonomics? There's a chapter that talks about a drop in crime rate that is linked to legalized abortion. The latter leads to fewer single parent families.

I reply:

If that is the case why did crime accelerate during the eighties? We did have a drop after we cracked down on crime, but abortion didn't seem to enter into it. There are a lot of criticisms of the studies used by the authors. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113314261192407815 and and https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2005/12/01/oops-onomics and https://www.foxnews.com/story/the-myth-about-abortion-and-crime Bear in mind out-of-wedlock births increased dramatically AFTER the legalization of abortion. People felt more confident taking sexual risks. And it is especially true among the poorest. The statistics Willis provided show this very thing. 

Two economists at the Boston Federal Reserve ran the same tests and found abortion actually increased crime. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=866864

If you look at violent crime rates, they started decreasing among those who were born prior to Roe v. Wade, btw; NOT among the young, which is what you would expect if abortion was what reduced crime.

Perhaps Fakenomics would be a more apt title for it. 

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