Raise the marrying age to 25 minimum.
Fin.
(Thank you, thank you–hold the applause please.)
That’s nice, but what about the 9 year old schoolgirl who conceives out of wedlock…?
Kill her. 
Oh you meant pragmatically right now? I don’t know…
Forced abortions, forced birth control, jail sentencing… (off the top of my head)
Sounds expensive, hard to administrate, not to mention, political suicide. Surely there must be a better way…?
The ‘forced’ birth-control is more promising, how would you administer it…?
A propaganda campaign of course.
It’d take half a century before people start accepting it mainstream (or at least 20 years since things are changing so fast).
However, I would have a problem with it myself–I don’t “believe” in administering drugs or hormones of any kind unless absolutely necessary.
Perhaps a cost-risk system could be established where everybody must be administered birth control by default and they could “buy out” of it.
The “buying out” would be subjecting yourself to huge, life-altering debts and jail time for getting pregnant after forgoing the birth control.
Yep, I’d offer financial incentives to a family that chose to innoculate its children with a long-term reversible anti-fertility vehicle, along with a suitably green/career/social-responsibility campaign. People like money more than rights, even if they don’t say so.
Trouble is, lower birth rate, coupled with increasing longevity, bankrupts a country.
How would we get around that…?
If you live longer does it mean you are more productive to a society? 
Why do I feel sorry for any daughter RU will have? I see the shotgun already. 
Actually just make people get licensed to have kids. We already have licenses for everything else. Implementing a birth license will be easy. You have to take tests, after your alotted kids you get a reversible sterilization in case a child dies while in its minority, then you can bear another. China I think will be having to relax its one child policies for a bit. there are just too many pissed of families right now.
There are already propaganda campaigns of “being green” to reduce the immediate consumption effects of individuals. This is going to radicalize soon.
The longer you live, the more simplistic life needs to be in order to propagate the social sphere.
Asian culture is going to infiltrate America. (this is the “biggest” trend happening)
People will eat out of tin cans and sleep in little box apartments.
We will take public transit to where we need to go and our climate effects will be lessened.
Unfortunately for you Kris, my daughter would take a shotgun to herself before harming her god-king!
(just a little sarcasm included)
Yes, China’s population control is going to be applied to the U.S. in terms of consumption.
The change will not be resisted that much either (as I see it).
Asian culture is going to merge with American culture in the 21st century.
Then, the dominoes will fall and the rest of the world will join in (Australia & Europe next).
Kris,
Licensing??? How does that work on Saturday night in the back seat of a Chevy? 
Licensing sounds good, but only when working with the large brain instead of the one in…
Licensing will probably happen for many things besides having children.
Want to do cocaine? That’s fine, get a license for it.
Want to smoke? That’s fine, get a license for it.
Want to have children? That’s fine, get a license for it.
Want to own a machine gun? That’s fine, get a license for it.
The idea of licensing has been around for awhile and it will become more popular the way individualistic rights works out in the U.S.
Americans don’t like being told what to do. Then again, we don’t like the bad consequences for our actions either.
So, risks will be granted through licensing. People who don’t fuck up can do whatever they want (reasonably). Those that do, pay a big price.
It works very well when families are given financial tax relief to take their kiddies in and get them reversible sterilizations.
or some other financial gain rather than tax relief.
OK. But then the incentive isn’t a need to be licensed, but some sort of other personal gain.
If I choose to go for the incentive, why do I need a license?
Your kids are going to want children eventually right? So if they want it reversed they would need a license.
[Currency] is the driving force behind personal gain Tentative.
Money incentives are the most practical ones.
Short-run only. Moral approbation is the long term solution.
Definitely.
The moral subject has yet to be touched upon in this forum…
Kris,
And what do you do if I say no to the incentive? Consider: We have offered millions of dollars for info to capture Bin Laden. Enough money incentive to provide security for a family in perpetuity. So what happened? Are those people who know completely stupid? Or is there some things for which no incentive is enticing enough?.
If I plan on my children having all the children they want, why would I take your incentive and then but a license to reverse it? Why not just ignore you completely? I think you have a problem…
marriage? hell the california supreme court has destroyed that…
coming next? nambla marriages brought to you by the ACLU.
I see dead liberals.
-Imp