Population Control The world is currently home for over 7 billion people and the Earth is able to inhabit a maximum of 10 billion people. If the human population grows at the same rate, there will be close to 10 billion people residing on Earth in the year 2050, which is right around the corner (“Planet”). It is an innate human characteristic that dwells in every human being’s psyche: selfishness. Human beings walk around with privilege and never stop and think about the bigger picture, in this case: the Earth. As the population rises, so will environmental concerns, economic tribulations, and a threat to the health of humankind. At this point in time, the human population has become a plague infiltrating the earth and ridding it of its resources.
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Population control should be in order for the general well being of future children, so they can have stability guaranteed to them. More often than not, people who live in poverty have the most children, which is not fair for children that are being brought to a life of struggle. For over the past 30 years, China had issued a one-child only policy throughout the country until recently relaxing it to two children. “Zheng Zhenzhen, a professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics in Beijing, told me that less than 2% of parents cite the state’s policy as the reason they have only one child…These parents cited the same concerns: the high prices of apartments and child care, as well as their long work hours” (New York Times). Many Chinese parents stated that they would not be making use of the new policy because they are much happier with one. These parents believe that having fewer children not only helps cut down the population, but it also keeps their lives flexible by not being overwhelmed with parenthood. A two-child policy should be enacted in the U.S. as well because it is much smarter to have fewer children, but give them a better quality of life. Some peoples’ need to have impractical amounts of children adds up financially and it is a burden many people are not equipped to handle. It is inevitable that families that have numerous amounts of children will need some kind of government support but it should not become the entire nations responsibility. People that disregard the two-child policy would be fined and have to pay a certain percentage of their income to the government yearly per additional
Population control should be in order for the general well being of future children, so they can have stability guaranteed to them. More often than not, people who live in poverty have the most children, which is not fair for children that are being brought to a life of struggle. For over the past 30 years, China had issued a one-child only policy throughout the country until recently relaxing it to two children. “Zheng Zhenzhen, a professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics in Beijing, told me that less than 2% of parents cite the state’s policy as the reason they have only one child…These parents cited the same concerns: the high prices of apartments and child care, as well as their long work hours” (New York Times). Many Chinese parents stated that they would not be making use of the new policy because they are much happier with one. These parents believe that having fewer children not only helps cut down the population, but it also keeps their lives flexible by not being overwhelmed with parenthood. A two-child policy should be enacted in the U.S. as well because it is much smarter to have fewer children, but give them a better quality of life. Some peoples’ need to have impractical amounts of children adds up financially and it is a burden many people are not equipped to handle. It is inevitable that families that have numerous amounts of children will need some kind of government support but it should not become the entire nations responsibility. People that disregard the two-child policy would be fined and have to pay a certain percentage of their income to the government yearly per additional