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6. Population
population control policies

7. How do governments affect population change?
Many governments institute policies designed to influence the overall growth rate or ethnic ratios within the population
These policies include
Expansive
Eugenic
Restrictive

8. Natalism
Countries around the world face problems from populations that are either growing too fast, or which are slowly shrinking.
Countries with LOW birthrates try to promote their people to procreate by instituting PRO- NATALIST POLICIES
Countries with HIGH birthrates try to curb the amount of children being born by instituting ANTI-NATALIST POLICIES

9. Expansive population policies
Encourage families to have more children
Communist societies
Soviet Union
China (Mao Zedong)
European countries NOW
Tax incentives
Sweden: cash payments, tax incentives, job leave, work hour flexibility up to 8 years after birth
Short baby boom but led to problems…?

10. Pro-natalist policies

11. Russia Pro-natalist Specifics Putin’s plan
Many people in Russia were not having children because of an uncertain future
Population was falling by 700,000 people a year
Putin’s plan
“Day of Conception”—9/12 (6/12)
$ for a 2nd and 3rd child
MEDALS????!!!!
All expense paid summer camp for young adults
Most important, this plan specifically targets people of European descent.

13. Singapore Goal? Was anti but now pro Specifics
Had high birth rate & fertility rate– made family planning available & gave financial rewards for smaller families
Currently, insufficient # of workers & there is an aging population
Now pro-Natalist with some incentives for people to get married and have kids like matchmaking services, baby bonuses, and increase fathers’ time off.

14. Do it for Denmark-do it for mom

15. Restrictive population policies
Reducing the rate of natural increase through arrange of means
China—One Child Policy
Income bonuses, better health care benefits, better retirement pensions, priority in housing

16. History of the ocp Became law in 1979, fully implemented in 1981
Initial goal—stabilize china’s population at 1.2 billion
Under control of the State Family Planning Commission
Easy to enforce in China b/c it’s totalitarian
Couples who violated OCP had to pay heavy taxes, for schooling and medical care, and sometimes sterilized

17. China
China in the 1970s faced a population jumping into the billions. IN order to curb the reproductive habits of its people, its leader created a controversial law, the One Child Policy:
Couples had to apply to have a child
Men could not marry until 22, women until 20
Having only 1 child would result in increased social benefits like $ from the govt., free food, or expanded opportunities
Having a 2nd child could result in fines and a reduction in social benefits
Both men and women could receive a lot of $$ for getting sterilized
Forced to only have 1 child, many Chinese women aborted female babies, waiting to have a male heir. These children today receive the affection of their entire families—”Little Emperors”
The policy was officially ended in 2015 in favor of the Two Child Policy

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19. Anti-natalist policies

20. India Anti-natalist Specifics
India has more than a billion people and a high birth rate.
1950 – started family planning and encouraging smaller families.
In the 60s and 70s, India tried to lower its birthrate through a program of forced sterilization
Now offering incentives for people to get sterilized after having only a few children
India's Hindu extremist party, the VHP, has asked the government to enforce family planning measures on the Muslim population, saying its rapid increase is "detrimental" to Hindus in the country

21. Thailand Overpopulated Offered free vasectomies
Economic incentives for family planning

22. Eugenic population policies
Favoring one racial or cultural sector of the population over the others
Tax discrimination, allocation of resources, favoritism
Nazi Germany
Japan?
USA
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KKK
Nazism in the US
Planned Parenthood

23. Solutions to population growth
Empowerment of women
Diffusion of birth control policies
Redistribution of wealth (improve standard of living for poor so children aren’t as necessary)
Medical technology (costs of maintaining vulnerable populations— old and young)
Addressing government policies to deal with their growing populations
**Is population control funded by MDC’s ethnical in LDCs? Is it our place to get involved in other countries and their population issues?