Roe Vs. Dubner's Freakonomics

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner wrote one of the bestselling novels titled Freakonomics. This novel was not only a bestselling novel, but it revolutionized the way people think and make decisions. This book provides many concepts and real life events that have taken place in America, and have shaped the way people are today because of it. A huge part of this book is all about the study of parenting and the effects that it can have. The novel discusses how Roe Vs. Wade has affected parenting and how children act, how certain influences can affect children and how they act, and how a child’s name means so much more than what meets eye. Many ideas that are brought up in Levitt’s and Dubner’s are extremely important on the topic of what it means to be a parent. In Freakonomics, the
Wade to the decrease in crime rate throughout 1990’s. To this date, Roe Vs. Wade is an extremely controversial court case because it still causes many protests from people who oppose what it stood for. The reason Roe Vs. Wade has become such a controversial court case is because it is dealing with abortion, a very touchy subject. The Ruling in Roe Vs. Wade made abortion legal in all of America. Now, why would making abortion legal result in a drop in crime? Well, Levitt and Dubner analyzed data from the U.S and Romania and proved why this is. In 1966 the Romanian President banned abortion entirely making it extremely illegal in hopes that more people would join the work force and improve the weak Romanian economy. The Implementation of the new abortion law caused for a significant increase in the number of unwanted babies, and the women could do nothing about it because abortion was now illegal. Levitt’s analysis of the children born within the first year of the new law showed that the lack of care given by the mothers of the unwanted children were more likely to have a troubled upbringing. Within the first year of the