Russell McMahon wrote:
> The above alone suggests a bad degree of mismanagement. When
> politicians dabble in "acceptable" numbers of children per family (or
> as in other countries, the preferred sex of children) then they need
> to be pretty sure they've got it right. Eugenics, if not actually a
> guest in the house, may lurk at one's door in such cases.
>
> A progression un living memory through:
>
>    One is enough / It's OK to have two / The more the better / ...
>
> suggests, given the length of a human generation, micromanagement that
> is less than optimum.

Historically, as a nation becomes wealthier, population growth slows (in 
some developed nations today, it's a negative number). So I agree that 
instead of poking its nose into people's bedrooms to control the population 
growth, the government should instead focus on doing everything it can to 
improve their material well-being (in most cases, this simply means staying 
out of people's way).

Vitaliy 

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