Men blamed for out-of-wedlock births.

[Woodznutz]

An analysis of out-of-wedlock births in the United States | Brookings

George Akerlof and Janet Yellen look at the decline in shotgun marriages and rise in the births out of wedlock.

www.brookings.edu

 

[Meister]

Thread closed, there needs to be some personal content in the OP.

 

[White 6]

An analysis of out-of-wedlock births in the United States | Brookings

George Akerlof and Janet Yellen look at the decline in shotgun marriages and rise in the births out of wedlock.

www.brookings.edu

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[Bob Blaylock]

An analysis of out-of-wedlock births in the United States | Brookings

George Akerlof and Janet Yellen look at the decline in shotgun marriages and rise in the births out of wedlock.

www.brookings.edu

A significant takeaway from the article, on a broader sense, is that if society changes in a way that makes a risky behavior less risky, but not risk-free, that that behavior will increase, and the increase will more than offset the degree to which the risk associated with that behavior was reduced; thus creating more of the harm caused by that behavior than there was before.

And allowing those who engaged in risky behavior greater “freedom” to evade their rightful responsibility for the consequences, increased the harm even further, still.

 

[Woodznutz]

A significant takeaway from the article, on a broader sense, is that if society changes in a way that makes a risky behavior less risky, but not risk-free, that that behavior will increase, and the increase will more than offset the degree to which the risk associated with that behavior was reduced; thus creating more of the harm caused by that behavior than there was before.

And allowing those who engaged in risky behavior greater “freedom” to evade their rightful responsibility for the consequences, increased the harm even further, still.

You nailed it!