Freakonomics whiz kid Steven Levitt came to similar conclusions when he found that US crime dropped by 50 percent exactly 18 years after abortion, 81 percent of which affects single women, was legalized in the 1970s. In fact, the earliest legalizing states showed the earliest declines in crime.
Statistics show fatherless children tend to fail academically, professionally and at marriage. Many carry debilitating guilt from the single mother's lopsided, sometimes martyred devotion and their spouse-like role in the family so that marrying, dating and even getting a life feels like "cheating" on Mom, say therapists.
Coulter makes the point that her stats are not racist. Black and white crime are equal when you remove the single mother variable, she said on the View.
She reserves particular bile in her new book for affluent women who pursue idealized sperm profiles for pregnancies. (I prefer my "eugenics" in the "original German," she writes.)
But the View participants still found her views Mean.
Do you have children? Are you married?" demanded Whoopie Goldberg, a single mother who called Coulter's facts "not great research." "You'd feel different if you had children," she said, skirting Coulter's point that it's not about the mothers.
"What about your girlfriend Sarah Palin?" asked Joy Behar.
"Judging, judging, judging," said Sherri Shepherd.
"You can dish it out but not take it," added Goldberg though some would call appearing on the View "taking it."
Mean said the at home audience.
1 | 2
