rolmops
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This is from researchers from the University of Chicago.<br />We all remember how terrible crime was in the eighties and then in the nineties it became less and less to the point where crime rates are fifty percent down from their peak in the eighties.In fact,even during the crack plague of the early nineties, crime was going down.Researchers checked whether it was because of stiffer prison sentences or a reduction in drug abuse and some other reasons why this might be,but nothing was really important enough to justify the drop in crime.<br />Then one researcher looked outside the box and looked at the fact that the highest crime rate always has been among unloved and unwanted children who grow up in a hostile environment.Then he combined this with the legalisation of abortion in 1974.This legalisation greatly decreased the numbers of unwanted children and,so he argues,these children would over the past fifteen years have reached their prime time as far as criminal activity is concerned.As we see,crime did go down.We know that many of these children were never born because their mothers used their legal right and had abortions.<br />It seems that the legalisation of abortion has had far reaching effects that have not been considered in public places, mostly, because it would not be expedient for politicians to touch this hot potatoe.
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