Freakanomics

Freakonomics is about a diverse and random pool of topics and how they strangely relate to each other.  I believe that the authors’ wrote this book to try and open people’s eyes to many different things. One passage that had a negative effect on me is the chapter that focuses on “What Makes a Perfect Parent.” I felt that it was very biased. It was speaking more on how older parents are more likely to have their children succeed more than younger parents. I felt offended by this because I’m a parent myself; I’m only 20 years old, and for me that’s not the case at all. In reality if you are a good parent, and you truly appreciate the opportunity to have a child; you would want to make sure that your child succeeds. No matter what the age of the parent, you’re going to take every opportunity to better yourself as a person and to better your child’s life. When I first started to read the book it was very interesting and I liked it but the farther I read the more I started to see that it was more opinions covered up by excess facts. It also had prejudice on the low. Even though I was intrigued by certain subjects, I wouldn’t want to read other books from the writers.  I wouldn’t recommend this book to a person who likes to read unless they love statistics and facts, but if they’re not a big reader maybe if they would like to know new things.