The World Is Not Getting Worse and Worse

 I will be expanding this list of good news about the world we live in.

• "Between 1993 and 2010, domestic violence among adult women in the United States has gone down by 64%." Ester Soler. http://www.ted.com/talks/esta_soler_how_we_turned_the_tide_on_domestic_violence_hint_the_polaroid_helped.html 01:45
• "Cigarette smoking has continued to decline among adults, from 42 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012." http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surgeon-general-report-links-more-diseases-health-problems-to-smoking-tobacco/2014/01/16/c0552c90-7eb5-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html
• "The abortion rate among American women declined to its lowest level in more than three decades in 2011, according to a new report released Monday that is widely considered the country’s most definitive examination of abortion trends." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/us/abortions-declining-in-us-study-finds.html?_r=0