Thread: Should there be child restrictions

Before we started relying on hospitals and medicine to keep our population up and consistent, we were only having one or two children because the mortality rate was LOWER. Now, people are multiplying like flies because of both the increased amount of medicine and the lack of rule saying there's a limit. Now there's asses like the Gosselins having eighteen children, not only damaging the population but also donning a sort of "fake lifestyle" to their children. I agree 100% with the statement that there should be a child limit per family.

People don't need more than one or two children; it just gets too messy. Each new child to a parent will have half the attention they'd have received if they were the only child. Then there's the issue of poverty... I feel that there's not enough resources on the planet to keep all of us alive because there's too many of us to begin with.

people who keep saying "the more the merrier" can go fuck a fruit basket.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Before we started relying on hospitals and medicine to keep our population up and consistent, we were only having one or two children because the mortality rate was higher.

that's a little off - a higher mortality rate actually means that people have more children. the point is that the infant mortality rate in developed countries is lower, life expectancy is up, and it's more sensible to not have such large families. those in developing nations have such a high rate of population growth partly because they need children to support them, especially as they age. [edit: this is also caused, worldwide, by women having children earlier in life - which is strongly related to education]

Originally Posted by Hidden

I have to agree with Repo here... I'm all for not overpopulating the world, but I don't think the government should have the power to force people not to have babies.

again,

Originally Posted by cygnus

bringing people out of poverty and educating them are the best ways to deal with overpopulation, especially in developing, third-world countries (the ones with insane growth rates).

i don't know why people say something like, "oh no the government is gonna go stipulatin' on us!"
we're not in china.

the government has more of a responsibility to address these things more competently, and actual control like you mention is very unlikely to happen in the western world.

Ah, well... I knew what I was trying to get at.