With population growing rapidly and exponentially and people who cannot afford children having too many. Should we limit children allowed to couples to 2.15 (one for each parent and .15 to make up for those who can't have children)
Is it a god given right to have as many children as possible, who should we monitor this for the sake of the planet and future?
I am curious.
2006-10-04 09:40:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think so. I am trying to counter-balance my sister's over-reproductivity by not having any.
2006-10-04 09:42:46 · answer #1 · answered by green is clean 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you're an American, I don't understand how you could even consider such a thing. This country was founded on freedom. We believe and have faith in our fellow man to make the right choices for himself and for the future of his family. I don't wan't anyone sterilizing ME! or my wife or my children just because some people think I'm not wealthy enough or responsible enough to buy tofu instead of pork chops.
Don't panic about the population growth. There's plenty of room on planet earth and one man can produce a thousand times more food on half the acrage than 50 years ago. People are already cutting back on the number of children they have. Family planning is working voluntarily as they see around them the consequences of not doing so. With the money spent on education and the myriad of birth control options, there is little excuse for having too many children today. It happens and they become the lesson for the rest of us.
Keep the government out of your life. No one can make this decision but you and your spouse.
As I understand it, today some parts of the former soviet union is begging their citizenry to have children. Once the government gets control, they never let go. Imagine the day when the government commands you to have children or help raise someone else's or won't let you have children because of your IQ or your race. Maybe they'll demand that you give birth and raise only embryos approved by a federal agency with DNA other than your own. Maybe they'll require you to leave your children with gays for a year to desensitize them to homosexuality...I could keep going.
2006-10-04 17:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by luperith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't think we should monitor the amount of children, this is taking away peoples basics rights. However, I think people on benefits should have some kind of constraints to the amount of benfit they can claim, and at some point there should be no increases to the amount of benefit just for having another child. Most working people get to a point where they cannot afford another child, even though they would really have liked more. So I think the same should go for people on benefits.
2006-10-04 16:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The population explosion is a global phenomenon more than American. It has to be addressed, but no one has a solution, as yet.
That the population explosion is real and dire does not itself in any way suggest that a legislative restriction should be enacted. Such a restriciton is terribly classist, and utterly undemocratic. Personal freedom is not - in our political thinking in the U.S. - at all (legislatively) dependendent upon wealth or poverty. A poor person must have the same legal right to move from Florida to Oregon as a rich person (we're talking about legal rights here, not factual ease). Similarly, the poor and the rich must have equal command over their own health and reproductive issues. No legislation will EVER be even discussed that would limit a rich woman's opportunity to have as many children as she wishes. Any restriction would necessarily be classist. No Democratic politician can even suggest such a thing, and a Republican would only stultify himself or herself by expressing such backward views.
2006-10-04 16:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by voltaire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
China has already done exactly that. Now, there is a gender imbalance, with 121 available young men for every 100 women. India, with the preference for male children, is not far behind. I know someone who actually worked in "family planning" in Communist China. Her job was to convince pregnant women who already had one child to have an abortion. This was very difficult for this person because she loved children. But if she failed to do her job she would have been imprisoned (she was anyway, but I am not sure if it was related to the job). Not many people could live with that job. Plus in the U.S., we have a real grudge against government getting involved in our personal lives like that.
We can only hope to instill the common sense that you shouldn't have any more children than you can afford (financially AND emotionally).
"If ya can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em."
2006-10-04 16:46:17 · answer #5 · answered by Stimpy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This isn't China, so I say no. And people who can't afford children should take that into account. No one's responsibility but their own. I dont think the US is that crowded, or getting that overcrowded that we even to start considering this.
It is God's given right to have as many children as a couple wants, but if a country is just bursting at the seams, a limit HAS to be set. :P
I got way too deep and serious about this...:D
2006-10-04 16:44:08 · answer #6 · answered by Mizzy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No way. However, I think there should be consequences to such decisions. A limit to the amount of federal assistance or tax breaks one would qualify for would be a good start. People should be using common sense. Next thing you know, it will be against the law to operate farm implements because people can get killed.
2006-10-04 16:44:41 · answer #7 · answered by Joe D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Emphatically no.
We have given up too many rights. Freedoms should be held dearly, dear. Young people today in America have fewer rights and opportunities than I did just a few years back. And, it is not because I or anyone in my generation had too many children.
2006-10-04 16:49:01 · answer #8 · answered by BParker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Population control would be extremely sensible; our world's resources aren't going to last forever. We should do for the sake of future generations having clean air and land mass to survive on
2006-10-04 16:44:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, once you have one child, your chances of having many, many more are poor. This is not a worry here in America. It's expensive to raise children, most parents both work, cost of living is high, education is high, daycare is high. Most Americans just realize that.
2006-10-04 16:43:34 · answer #10 · answered by flower 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have as many as YOU can afford.
I recommend manditory sterilization for people who have 2 children on State Aid (males and females, btw).
Oh, no? Then don't bring it up...
2006-10-04 16:59:27 · answer #11 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋