“World
of Good” Social-Impact Report 2006, http://www.worldofgood.com/impact/index.shtml
A
“social-impact report”? We
have heard of “environmental-impact report”;
for example, one has to be filed with regard to the disposition of
our Montebello Hills before a decision be made about the hills.
A social-impact report would talk about the probable and possible
social consequences of a planned or existing activity.
What kind of
social-impact report would you write based on the following?
First, we would have to establish the facts, then weed out the
fallacious arguments. As for
fallacious arguments, what do you see?
Ma,
Ma, Where’s My Pa?
by Kay Hymowitz,
Los Angeles Times,
Op-Ed, June 25, 2008
...Marriage,
like the firing squad, focuses the mind. If you're a young woman who has
grown up believing you should be married to your child's father, you will be
more careful about who that man will be. And if you're a young man who knows
you will have a vital role to play as a husband and father, you'll have
reason to stay in school and out of trouble. ...
Who
Needs a Firing Squad When You've Got Prisons?
by Kerry Howley
...For
low-income black women, the world really isn't cooperating. We put an awful
lot of nonviolent black men behind bars, which is not generally conducive to
good fathering. With so many young men absent, the marriage markets are
heavily skewed against women, and mothers who might otherwise demand that
men stay home and change diapers find themselves in a miserable bargaining
position. In his book "The Logic of Life," Tim Harford describes
one study indicating that "a one-percentage- point increase in the
proportion of young black men in prison reduces the proportion of young
black women who have ever been married by three percentage points." Now
consider: In
New Mexico
, 30% of black men between 30 and 35 are in prison. Telling women to want
marriage more just doesn't seem like an effective strategy here. ...
August 21, 2008