Thread: Should there be child restrictions

Originally Posted by Puffin

Overall trends say our population is going up.

Originally Posted by cygnus

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.

That's what I meant to say. The population may still be going up, but its rate of growth is going down.

Originally Posted by Hidden

The population may still be going up, but its rate of growth is going down.

yeah, that's the thing... the death rate went down and the birth rate went up after the industrial revolution. for a country to survive and do well, the birth rate needs to be much closer to the death rate (as is the case in many european countries).

indeed the world birth rate should be slowed but in europe it needs to be increased slightly.

Saying dumb people should have less kids would end disasterously. Would 5 GCSE's equate to a pregnancy licence? The thing is, the more educated people complain about the fact that less educated people have higher birthrates, then refuse to have children.