2 child per family?

Question

Do you think that 2 child per family - to stabilize the world population will be a law we will see in the near future ?
Can you accept it ?

Answer 1

Personally I can (I have 2 kids!) but I believe that its unfeasable to impose that sort of restriction on the entire world population :D

Answer 2

Similar to China, India also took a step to control it's burgeoning population. However, it was far too loose, and hasn't really succeeded in the uneducated classes. India is a democracy and therefore would not pass a law to the effect, but would "suggest" a two-kids-per-family concept. With a low divorce rate, multiple families was not a problem.

However, the movement can be called both a success and a failure.

You will see almost all middle and upper class(read educated) Indian families restricting the family size to 2 or max 3 offsprings.

The uneducated and poorer classes however, have gone ahead with procreation, primarily because they feel a larger family size would ensure a larger income opportunity.

The bottomline is that a more educated and wiser family tends to go for smaller family-size. It is important to create awareness about population explosion problems and then let individuals make their own decisions.

Answer 3

I think is is unfair to limit the amount of children. The world is in trouble but not only from the population. How would this law be enforced? What to do with triplets?-especially if you already have one at home.

What about a laws requiring composting, limiting car use, banning showers that last longer than 4 minutes?

The country I live in has a low birth rate as do many of the industrialized nations. (and these are the only nations that would probably attempt such an action)

Answer 4

Yes, I can see laws coming into effect in the near future for population control. Unfortunately, we simply cannot sustain the level of growth that we are seeing right now.

Instead of making it a requirement though, I think encouraging only 2 children per family is a good idea. Offer birth control, offer educational benefits to the first two children in a household, benefits if a person wants to expand their family through adoption instead of natural conception...

But I don't think that making it mandatory will work, because there are too many other variables out there that drive the desire to have large families: poverty (statistically, poor people tend to have significantly more children), religious beliefs, "accidents" (poor birth control planning), cultural influences (agricultural areas tend to have more children per household for economic reasons) and simply the desire to have lots of mini-me's running around.

I agree with some of the other posters, that regardless of how many kids, I think that it should be mandatory for a would-be parent to take a certification course or set of parenting classes before having children.

In comparison, the process for adoption alone is grueling - including 10 weeks of child welfare classes, a huge document of questions about your personal life details, a government level background check and a home inspection.

Why would we expect any less for people who want to have children the natural way?

Answer 5

It's a bad idea to limit procreation.

As someone has already mentioned, the communist regime passed a law in China (which no longer exists today) saying that each household was only allowed to have one child. As such, every family wanted to carry on their family name, so many families began abandoning their female children and continued to have kids until they had a male. This led to a population crisis, where in present-day China, there are like 54% males and 46% females. Eventually this problem will right itself, but if, and only if, there are no laws restricting population growth.

While I think personally that two children in a household is a reasonable number, many others might not. If such a law was passed we'd see a similar trend in the States.

Answer 6

Why would you want to stabilize the world population that way?
Some people shouldn't have any children at all. For financial, personnel, or mental reasons that would prohibit them from taking care of children. On the other hand there are people who can afford to and have the time and resources to raise 10 children if they wanted to. So, when it comes to parenting not all people are equal, so there shouldn't be a law that should treat them that way.

Answer 7

REALLY great answers here; however it would not work in my case. I have 5 children; 3 teenagers, 2 little ones, and our life is full. We have no desire to have one of our own.

I agree there are some people who shouldn't have kids. I have a friend who doesn't want any at all, and that is noble on her part to recognize she and her husband just aren't interested.

But making a law that says "You can only have 2 children"...what happens when God has a sense of humor and gives you another? What about those couples who try for years just to discover they are infertile? What about those people who have twins, then triplets?

Nope, there are too many circumstances that would make a law stating "Only two children" very difficult.

Answer 8

It certainly worked for China until they had a 9 to 1 ratio of men to women. I dont' think any married couple should have more children than they can financially and emotionally support. With so many people working today, it's hard to have more than two kids, daycare costs alone drain your bank account.

To answer your question, I think it's something that may be considered. I'm not certain it would pass though. I could handle it, but I wouldn't like being restricted to only two. I would pass a law stating that people have to pass a certified exam to become pregnant. There's too many loussy parents that don't discipline and teach their children morals.

Answer 9

I dont know lol my parents would be in trouble if there were such a law lol as i am the oldest of 14 and my mom pregnant again but now that she is getting older she is saying she does not want anymore after this one lol but with in the 14 of us children i have 12 brothers and only 1 sister and shes my identical twon so im hoping for another sister my mom wants this one to be a suprise but i think that everyone figures it will be just another boy lol

Answer 10

I hope I'm dead and gone when all those New World Order laws really go in effect, wow now a law telling you how many kids to have we have laws saying when you can be outside and how much fun you can have at what time, I'm glad I grew up when life was worth living.

Answer 11

I hope not! I would not be able to accept it. What if some one had twins with their first pregnancy, then OOPS got pregnant again? That's THEIR baby, not for anyone else to say what can happen to that child! Or what if they had one baby, went for another and THEN had twins? Nope, I don't think so. Glad it's not a law, I have three kids. My friend is due with her 6th and they are living just fine, in their means, living very well! Whose to say that they can have that life??