The Bell Curve

Children of single mothers, as proven in many case studies, might be jeopardized by their lack of having two parents.  This rings particularly true regarding their social outcomes later in life.

Consider this for starters: The vast majority of single mothers in America spring forth from the lower two IQ groups as they arrange on the Bell Curve.  And if, as it is currently hypothesized, forty to sixty percent of IQ is heritable, these children are often hobbled at the starting line.

Furthermore, studies reveal that a huge majority of criminals, of high school dropouts, of the chronically poor, of malnourished children originate from households with single mothers.

I imagine you can hear some conservatives clapping in the background at mention of these proven results.  Such statistics vindicate their long-embraced view that divorce, single-parent adoptions, and out-of-wedlock pregnancy are an abomination.

Of course this does not serve as an indictment to all single mothers.  Far from it.  But we shall give conservative thinking a point here.

But sociology, as all things plumbed through with statistics, allows information that might shake up the most ardent conservatives to pump out along other statistical lines.  A case in point is a study looking into the sharp decline in crime throughout the latter part of the 1990's.

That study landed on a most unexpected conclusion.

Researchers came up with what they saw as a very direct link between Roe versus Wade (legalized abortion) and the dropping crime rates.  They saw that far fewer (than is statistically normal) crimes were being committed by those under the age of twenty-five.

This is a statistical anomaly of some import.

The researchers, noting that most of the unwanted abortions in the 1970's were those of young single mothers who comprised the danger group—low IQ, poor, often minority—concluded that many potential criminals were, therefore, aborted before falling into their expected patterns.

No point given here.

Strange and maybe even ugly if true.

— Mitchell Hegman