China's One Child Policy is a great policy.

[Joelcool7]

sapphi_snake said:

Joelcool7 said:

I disagree with the one child policy. Introduce health care and education to the masses and populations will go down. As much as I hate to promote abortion it sure has reduced populations. Here in Canada many people are choosing not to have kids, infact the population of Canadian's born in Canada is falling rapidly and were having to bring in immigrants to sustain our population.

I think if you were to introduce abortion, birth control, condoms and religion (Yes abstinance certainly helps prevent births) then the population levels will drop.

In many developing countries the parent's need to have children to support them. Farms and buisnesses rely on children. Many families think they need to have 10 kids to secure their family line, because up until now most of them would die off early.

I think if we can modernize the world, then the population levels will begin to fall. I think this is a waining period where the population is going out of control, but this phase will end and the population levels will begin to recede on their own.

Very religious countries (which are also underdeveloped mainly) have higher birthrates than non-religious ones. Abstinence doesn't work unless you practice it, and most people don't wanna practice it, yet they do not use birth control, as their religion forbids it (funny, no?), or because they were never taught about it. Also, religion says nothing about abstinence during marriage, so you'll have married couples who pop up a kid a year (there are examples in the US). Religion is the enemy of family planning.

Which religion forbids condoms or the pill? Certainly none that I know of. Abstinance is taught and the Catholic church says that people should abstane rather then use pills and condom's. They don't forbid it infact I'm not even sure many extremist groups (Islam or other) even forbid using the pill or condom's.

Married couples popping out a kid a year is rare, regardless of faith at least here in modernized countries. I don't know of a single family that has more then 3 kids. I am a Christian and the majority of the families I know have one or two kids. I also teach sunday school and the max I've seen is three.

Also who said all married couples in the US are religious? Then as you said many so called religious people don't practice abstinance, which is infact religious law. Are those people really religious?

Religion if practiced is not the enemy of family planning. At least not the abrahamic religions.