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To: epicure who wrote (35423)	3/12/2007 11:50:16 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541743

"In Freakonomics an interesting argument was made about the impact abortion had on crime rates- I hadn't thought about it before I read that, but it made a lot of sense. " A near cultural equilibrium was achieved when one man and one woman in a core family was normed. Everyone knows you don't need very many men to maintain population numbers and now we have an excess of nearly 100 million men (birth rate ratios favoring the birth of boys) on the Eastern Hemisphere, coming on line due to our attempts to control population. In addition we have 51% of the mate-able men in the USA going single with another large percentage considering it. This is also a world wide trend. "Young criminals come on line at about age 17." We aint seen nut'n yet. Many of these boys have not been raised with positive male role models who were significant influences in their lives. And, the fastest growing prison population is women. Unmated men have always banded together in violent endeavor. We are entering circumstances unprecedented in the history of humanity.