Do you think strict two child policy be a thing?
2026-04-01 12:25 UTC
Replies (13)
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@osanna@lemmy.vg 2026-04-01 12:31
I think with the cost of living, wars etc, the world population will begin to slow, then eventually lower. With or without a one/two child policy. Shit fucking sucks and I think people won’t be be able to afford kids soon. I am just grasping at straws here, and this is just personal opinion.
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@sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 2026-04-01 12:40
Absolutely not. There’s no scenario where I would agree with forcing people to have children.
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@pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:50
The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster. The real question is why you would possibly think it’s a good idea to try.
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@MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-01 15:15
As an upper limit? As a lower limit? What do you mean? Forcing people who don’t want kids to have two is insane. Who will make it happen? Is there a conception agency where agents just go a rape women in this imagined scenario? Forcing a third pregnancy to terminate is also pretty insane. Suppose the mother doesn’t even know she’s pregnant until pretty far along. Suppose a mother hides her pregnancy and gives birth in secret; is that baby getting killed? In either case, what is the punishment for violation? Suppose a woman is incapable of having kids when you mandated 2; is she to be executed for being unable to fulfill this societal requirement? Suppose a woman intentionally had more than her government-permitted 2 children; what is her sentence for providing extra mouths to feed? It’s unethical, it’s not reasonably enforceable, and frankly, I’m not sure I understand what such a policy would even be attempting to accomplish.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-04-02 01:35
nope but I don’t think we should subsidize having kids with tax brakes and such. 100% public education and meals at school and we should have universal healthcare. so if children are born provide for their needs as we do for other members of society but no tax breaks or such.
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@disregardable@lemmy.zip 2026-04-01 13:31
Literally zero way to enforce it without being cruel.
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@mr_manager@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:41
The current trend on world population has us hitting 10.3 billion in 2080, and then it starts to recede. The idea of an overpopulated world comes from a book written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb”. The actual problem we’re facing in the west is a rapidly aging population, and birth rates that are falling off a cliff. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971
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@danekrae@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:30
Are you asking if it should be a thing, or if it exists?
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-04-01 15:28
no
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@Karl@literature.cafe 2026-04-02 01:59
I never said that. Why're you soo intent on putting words into my mouth? Population could also be controlled by neutering men.
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@Karl@literature.cafe 2026-04-02 02:02
And men still produce sperm. If we neuter them after 2 children we can still do it. Not that I like that. Just saying there is something else
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@Karl@literature.cafe 2026-04-02 02:15
Read my other comment. I think I should have specified that in the post.
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@Karl@literature.cafe 2026-04-02 02:17
I notice that you have replied to my other comment. You must know I meant that as an upper limit. Is there a reason you need to pretend you didn't read it?