Freakonomics Reflection

Freakonomics was a very interesting book. It probably would not have been a book that I picked up to read for personal enjoyment, however I am glad I read it for this class. I learned several different things through my journey in this class. I will go over the three things that stood out to me and give my interpretation.
The first topic I would like to go over was the chapter on what makes a good parent. I could relate to some of the findings. We all know there is no instruction guide on how to raise a perfect child. We all have our own ideas on what we feel works best. There are differences in cultures as well.
In the readings, it states, “genes alone are responsible for perhaps 50 percent of a child’s personality and abilities.” I do not …show more content…
This organization was running like a business. Being of African American decent, I found this hard to read but I am very familiar with being treated different due to the color of your skin. The book talked about some of the practices they participated in such as lynching’s. I found it interesting that this was not as common of practice as I would have believed. The racists white people had more mind control over the black people of that time-period. The book says, “If a black person violated the accepted code of behavior, whether by talking back to a bus driver or daring to try and vote, he knew he might well be punished, perhaps by …show more content…
There was a lot of research done to come up with these findings. Crime is a hazard regardless of when or where it happens. There have always been penalties for breaking the law.
1 John chapter 3 verse 4 says, “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness” If you break the law there were consequences in biblical times as well as current times. Per the findings in Freakonomics,” Between 1980 and 2000, there was a fifteenfold increase in the number of people sent to prison on drug charges. Many other sentences, especially for violent crime, were lengthened.” Crime doesn’t pay whether you believe in the fact that what you reap in the flesh you will sow in the flesh. Eventually you will be punished.
The last topic I want to discuss is abortion. This was one of the things that was believed to decrease crime in the 1990’s. We all know that God wants us to be fruitful and multiply. It is one of our responsibilities as human beings to populate the earth. In some circumstances, woman choice to have abortions and that is what is best for them. When abortion became legal in the United States, “Conceptions rose by nearly 30 percent, but births actually fell by 6 percent” per Levitt and

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