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Re:China to begin two-child policy by adrianN on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:15AM (#10470701)
If only certain people are encouraged to have children, you automatically have an underclass, no matter how it's implemented. I think that providing free (or more incentivized) birth control would lead to very few cases of unwanted children. IUDs and vasectomies are simple and effective.
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Re:China to begin two-child policy by kalleboo on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:23AM (#10470751)
> I think that providing free (or more incentivized) birth control would lead to very few cases of unwanted children.

You'd be surprised

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by adrianN on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:30AM (#10470808)
I don't have data at hand, so I can't contradict you with evidence, but you could also provide some numbers with your claims. I know of Project Prevention [1], which pays drug addicts for long-term birth control. The Wikipedia article doesn't provide data on effectiveness, but I guess they'd stop handing out money if it didn't work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prevention

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by nsgi on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:22AM (#10471158)
Effective enough to be worth the cost != effective enough to eliminate unwanted children
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