Carrot vs stick.
Just give incentives to voluntarily have less kids. Heck, even just education, high wages, and social mobility (particularly for women) typically drops the birth rate at or under 1 child anyway.
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoif memory serves, last time that was attempted it did not work.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
See China
finitebanjo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
They were probably referring to that, yes. But most of the issue with China was the additional requirement that only men could inherit the family wealth and title so it led to the killing of female babies and skewing of gender ratios.
They sorted a lot of that out lately and its done wonders for their quality of life long term, but they also renegged on thw whole
And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
The law had plot holes, just needs to be long sighted with human behavior in mind.
What’s happening now is different story. Maybe it’ll come full circle.