Is having a 1-2 child policy world wide, a solution to over population?

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freakyzeaky · Accepted Answer

Only certain countries and cultures have a population that pumps out more than an average of 2 children per family. Islamic nations have a very high rate of like 8 children per family on average. India and China of course historically have high birth rates too. But Europe is actually in a crisis when it comes to reproduction. The culture in Europe is not sustainable at its current rate of like 1.2 - 1.5 children per family. Even the US is dangerously close to a point of no return at 1.6 and the only reason it is even that high is due to the influx of Hispanic immigrants.

ladsin · Accepted Answer

Sounds like a massive violation of rights, and a nightmare to legislate. What would you do? Murder children if they're the third?

I agree that people should have less kids, but that has to be their own decision, not some law or mandate.

strangytie · Accepted Answer

The Mormons would never go for that. Look at China, it may have decreased the population but they also have female infanticide and people used illegal drugs to have twins or triplets or more per single birth.

DevikaButts95 · Accepted Answer

Yes it is factually a solution. It will solve overpopulation, or at least prevent the population from getting even more out of hand. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a good solution tho.

gwail · Accepted Answer

Even in countries with a one child policy people still have more kids they just don't register them. So they are technically illegal resistance or non nationality holders.

MlleCake · Accepted Answer

Government needs to stay the fuck out of reproduction.

TheKidFromBrooklyn · Answer

The only people who would follow it are the people who have a conscience, have the ability to worry about consequences, and actually follow the law. These are precisely the kinds of people that you want to be having kids. And this is irrespective of the effect a policy like this could have in social structure. If you want to fix overpopulation, make the next generation smarter, and better educated than we are, so they might actually have a chance of coming up with effective policies of countering it. You don't do that by de-incentivizing all the smartest people from having kids.

MackToday · Answer

People in third world countries will choose male children over female. It leads to female children being starved, aborted etc. After a while you end up with few females and many more males. A horny sexually frustrated mass of military age men is a good way to reduce the population on earth in general.

LegateLanius · Answer

It's never going to be able to be a thing that all governments can do nor enforce. Its a solution but that would screw over China completely.
The better thing to do would be to work on making a plant that can grow in low fertile environments or other research into sustainable foods - maybe even making some sort of refined food made of arthropods - specifically all of the smaller bugs.
Another solution is to move more people to different areas, there are plenty of spaces left to fill in both Russia and USA for example.

Himig_Ng_Pag-ibig · Answer

Nope! it isn't... If we look at the statistics, the peak for young people's aged had already been achieved while the overall human population peak is estimated to peak around year 2045-2055. That's not far at all... Furthermore the average fertility rate worldwide is 2.4 and that will go down in the coming years..

TadCurious · Answer

It would most definitely help. But the most effective way to get there (and this has been shown over and over) is to increase the economic, educational and social opportunities for girls and women. Where women in the developing world gain economic opportunity and education, they have fewer children, and they have more options for birth control.

Kuraj · Answer

Overpopulation is exclusively a third world problem and I doubt those cultures are very good at following regulations.

I think more realistic solution is for first world to refuse immigrants from overpopulating countries.
Socioeconomic collapse and famine will solve the situation there eventually.

Kkaos · Answer

I think it's a great idea. Why do people need more than 2 children? What's their reason? Half the parents I see with mass numbers of children are also the parents from low socio-economic backgrounds who can barely even afford to raise them.

Anonymous · Answer

If that happens well that's depressing.  But yeah it's not a good solution cause we have plenty of room on this earth, no such thing as over population.

Potatocream · Answer

No, overpopulation won't be a problem. Once countries start developing they end up with fewer and fewer babies. You see the trend in developed countries already like here in Germany where our population is shrinking

Krumpir · Answer

Not 1 because look at the China... They basically killed their entire generation with 1 child policy. Everyone wanted a son.

anndramcin · Answer

People live longer these days and have a lot of kids. My grandfather had 7 (two marriages after his first wife passed away).

People probably couldn't imagine living to nearly 100 in the early 20th century.

Anonymous · Answer

Children have continued to be born for all these thousands of years, and yet there's still vast area's of the World that have no people. The problem for older retired people is that there has been far too FEW children being allowed to be born, to support the continued issuance of Social Security that older people have PAID-INTO all their working lives

kitjo · Answer

It's an excellent idea for Africa and India, probably a necessary idea for China. Definitely should not be imposed on the race that's driven civilisation for the past couple of thousand years: Europeans.

Anonymous · Answer

It sounds like it would be but it ended up screwing China over so I'd say no.  Also are our governments all prepared to provide contraceptive services to everyone? If no gtfo of my business

RBasim · Answer

Around the world? I would not agree! But for those regions where the population is high. I would say that it should be upto two for those countries. Otherwise 3 gonna work better. You never know the loss of life due to any event! :/

Nahid1234 · Answer

Yea, i want two children in the future, a son and a daughter ideally. i don’t see why having many children would be a good thing.

DanOh2018 · Answer

No, it won't really solve anything. Only good people follow the law. So you are effectively giving good people an evolutionary disadvantage lol

B2785 · Answer

This policy is too intrusive in the natural rights & functions of people. However those who want to voluntarily render themselves incapable of reproducing is another matter, as long as it's not a government mandate.

mac_daddy416 · Answer

When for created earth obviously he knew how much people it could bare. So we need to stop worrying about world population and worry more about world monopoly. Where one or two countries want own everything. Cause rest of humanity to go hungry.

Kgbmafia · Answer

yes xD some people be popping out 5 kids at once like wtf haha

Kulen · Answer

It could be, I would like to discuss more in private, if that's okay?

ManMountain · Answer

War, disease and famine are the most reliable outside of a global natural disaster.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I have voted 'no', as it is only part of a solution. Considering especially China and India, additional steps will be required

mindblog · Answer

not exactly a solution. But if you see the previous generations, there were no such rules and it was not appropriate to have 5+ kids as a couple.

Aksamlar · Answer

It's not overpopulation it's overly aplified population density.

taleswapper · Answer

There is no overpopulation problem. There's a distribution one.

gobsmacked3 · Answer

Not that I am advocating it but the States have a great means to control it with their lapse guns laws

Aevatar · Answer

How exactly would that work with me? Lol I have two girlfriends and four kids between them and they're both pregnant

mT2359 · Answer

It will not bear immediate results, but has to be supplemented by further positive and non-coercive reinforcements.

Anonymous · Answer

no, of course not. but, i do think that people take sex too lightly these days, that, too many people have taken it for granted and that, unwanted pregnancies are likelier to happen because people aren't being safe

Scarecrow13 · Answer

We need people to have more babies, not less at least in Western countries we have less than 2 children per couple and that is not sustainable. You need at least 2 to maintain a steady population.

CT_CD · Answer

Everyone in the world should just stop having kids for like 5 years

es20490446e · Answer

I think having two is the best, as it prevents both over-population and population getting too old.

Soteris · Answer

That is the road to a lot more problems.

Anonymous · Answer

No. Cucking about 80% of the guys will do it. Like it's been doing for the last 40 years.

Calo3 · Answer

It's a solution not necessarily the best

Anonymous · Answer

Yes. When you are having your first child?

AlphaStyles · Answer

Yes I think it can slow down over population

_Enigma_ · Answer

Purge all the old people. Anyone over 63.

pizzalovershouse · Answer

sum times

Anonymous · Answer

It is not a good solution.

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