Only Those of a Stable and Adequate Income Should be Allowed to Bear Children

If you check the links I have posted below, you will find that China's one-child policy, which was established in the 1970s was actually not very successfully enforced. While the rate of population change was 1.9 percent each year, you also have to look at why it was put in place. Previous Chinese governments had encouraged people to have lots of children to increase the workforce. It was eventually realized that this growth in population would eventually become unsustainable and so they created the one-child policy. Benefits included increased access to education for all in addition to child care and health care benefits. Those who had more than one child did not receive benefits and people in rural areas resisted. It was much easier for the policy to be enforced in urban areas than rural. Additionally, many people claim that women were forced to have an abortion and were forcibly sterilized after having their first child. Due to the traditional preference to boys, many girls ended up in orphanages and in some cases killed. 90% of the fetuses aborted were female. As a result, there are many more men than women in China at the moment. This fall in birth rate is also causing economic problems. The falling birth rate lead to a rise in the relative number in elderly people, but there are fewer people of a working age to support the growing number of elderly dependents. In terms of enforcement there are two links in the wikipedia source you provided that I found to be very enlightening. The first was from China Daily, which claims that less than 40% of the population is restricted by the family planning policy to having one child. In the majority of the Chinese provinces, couples can have two children if they are only children. Minority groups are free to have two or more children. Couples in rural areas are allowed to have two children if the first is a girl (52.9% of the population). The policy has been adjusted to maintain the birth rate rather than lower it. The second source is from the Australian. As of 2007, when the article was published, China no longer had a one-child policy. Instead their goal was to reach a population of 1.36 billion by 2010. The government called for a very strict punishment for abortion that was not intended for medical reasons in order to close the gap between the number of males and females in the Chinese population. If communist China cannot effectively implement controls to the population, then how is it possible that the US democracy would be able to not only reduce the number of births, but entirely restrict certain demographics from having children. According to the CIA factbook, there are 1.87 children / woman on average in the year 2015. I have also attached a chart by census.gov that goes through number of children on average in a family with a.) a single mother, b.) a single father, and c.) a family with both mother and father present: on average is no more than 2.5. Instead of focusing on the number of 7 billion, which unless there were plans to take out a good portion of the population the US alone could not change, let's redirect our attention to the existing adoption and foster care systems. Many of these systems are abysmal. Children are often separated from their siblings, and are abused by the system that was put in place to protect them. Rather than focus on controlling one demographic, let's fix another. Improving the foster care system and encouraging the adoption of the existing children who are floating around in the system will help control the population in terms of how many children a family is able to handle and helping the children who the system basically ignores. We can encourage those who have a stable and adequate income to take care of these children and thus allow those who cannot care for their children to be secure in the knowledge that they will be cared for in a safe environment. http://www.bbc.co.uk... http://www.chinadaily.com.cn... http://www.theaustralian.com.au... https://www.cia.gov... https://www.census.gov... http://www.childrensrights.org...