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I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to try telling people that the poor aren't allowed to have sex & children. It'd be a bit like suggesting the same solution to the HIV crises. Telling them to "stop having so many kids" is a bit too simplistic and ignores the many surrounding factors.



Listening to the BBC on the radio the other day ( Thats a small box rather like a TV except no picture) there was an interview with a documentary maker just back from China, the topic was the pressure, finincial and moral put on couples to only have one child. Seen as an oppressive thing imposed by the Chinese government by us westerners. The interviewer was discussing this policy in a rural area and when it was suggested that this was a terrible thing to impose, the villagers where quite angry and gave the view that we farm what we can and survive on it, and what gives one particular couple the right to have two children and use up more of the areas resources. They really where quite angry that the interviewer even asked the question. ( course they could have been reading from a script prepared for them)
The impression was that if a couple had more than one child they became an outcast from the community.
The program did mention that in large cities the policy was somewhat relaxed, "If you can afford more than one child it was possible"
So that system of birth control seems to have worked for them.