Child Birth Policy

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in the future. According to ‘The State of Poverty in America’, “We have two basic poverty problems in the United States. One is the prevalence of low-wage work. The other concerns those who have almost no work.” The job market is already rough, but competition for jobs will only get harder and require more education and higher degrees, resulting in people having to go back to school and comeback to compete for another job at equal or less pay than before. By having the government control how many children a woman should have, it will help prevent a greater economic catastrophe. **Cause/Effect Finally, there should be a child birth policy in order to further prevent environment and natural resource destruction. By having a limit on the number …show more content…
America is known to be the land of the free and in order to keep the population at a steady rate, I would propose a plan that is different than China’s One Child Policy. Instead of women being limited to only one child, my policy would allow women to have between one to three children at most. Two children would be ideal but the policy is set up to three children in case a woman has triplets or twins. Some benefits a family would receive from having only one to two children, would be lower taxes. There would be no forced abortions like China’s One Child Policy. If a woman has more than three children, then there will be a reasonable fine to pay. Now, in rare circumstances where a woman is pregnant with multiples, such as quadruplets, and was not given fertility treatments, these multiple births would be out the woman’s control and therefore, would not be punished. By allowing women to have up to three children, the gender gap will not be an issue as it is in China. The benefits of this policy will be that it will reduce the population over decades and allow parents to be more financially stable having only one to three children rather than having four or more children to take care of. We need to deal with population problem before it destroys us and everything else. Eleanor Roosevelt stated, “We must prevent human tragedy rather than run around trying to save ourselves after an event has already occurred” (Balkin Pg. 22). By implementing this policy, it will greatly reduce the human population, allowing for birth and death rates to become more balanced and help prevent any catastrophic