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The funny thing about this is, if you look at the data the population explosion is actually happening in third world countries. China, India, Mexico, some parts of south and central America, Africa. Truth be told census data wise population in developed Western Nations is down. More Families are having 1-2 Children instead of 4-5. Large families are no longer the norm and quite expensive to maintain in modern western economies.
Now China has the rather draconian 1 child doctrine because they are aware of their population situation. India and the rest just seem to ignore it.
Honestly I am not sure regulation would work. We are not a dictatorship and telling people they cannot have a child is dictatorial.
Education is really the key here. If you educate people on the pitfalls and expenses of raising children then perhaps they would think more.
I for one am a firm believer in only bringing children into the world you can afford to raise. Its not fair to the child, to not be able to afford them.
Now things have changed quite a bit from when my father married my mother and started our family while still in College. For one its a lot more expensive, for two opportunity that made him move forward without thinking about it have changed for a lot of people these days. Less job security, less likelyhood of having the kind of job that would support a family of five.
Making social requirements for having children is actually less right wing than some of you may realize. Liberals and the democratic party love creating hands on i.e. regulations and requirements for everything.
You really could not stand on the tenants of the constitution all the while telling people they cannot have a child. Its a basic freedom to co create. Now unfortunately how some people handle that freedom and human nature can be rather poorly thought out.
It comes right back to education. Educate children about the costs of having children. Shit we have sex ed classes in Junior high, make it a requirement for a financial responsibility part of that.
I mean they taught us about how babies are born and what not why don't they teach about after you have a baby this is what it takes to raise the damn thing. LOL
I think they do a rudimentary type deal of that at the high school level these days. Though they should be sitting the kids down and saying this is what it takes, you have to be making x amount of dollars. You have to be able to own a home. You have to be able to pay for x and x and x. ETC.....
Education to me is a far better way to tackle the issue rather than just straight up making set requirements based on laws. You start making requirements and then it becomes the issue of well what do we do if they violate the requirement? Make a law to punish them? If you do that you are now going towards fining or possible imprisonment for violation . Do we really need to create more situations that could add to the already large prison population? A population that is already partly swelled for locking up some people for victimless crimes already.
This just is not the type of subject that is easily regulated in a society based on freedom or the proposal of freedom.
Oh and I am all for abortion, It is the Women's decision what to do with their bodies be it wrong or right.
We should not be telling a person what they can and cannot do with their bodies.
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