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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7563605" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>There are answers (4), which is to provide better education, especially to women, and to provide more reproductive control to women, and (5), have economic policies that incentivize lower birth rates (basically, make it such that one's offspring do better if there are fewer of them, generally, by having offspring do better if they are better educated and have a richer upbringing). From what I've read, these are effective at reducing birth rates.</p><p></p><p>I can see that these would be ineffective for certain groups. If a group firmly believed that they should have many children as a mandate, that would counteract the effects of (4) and (5).</p><p></p><p>There is also the option (6): Infanticide and killing elders. See for example, the practices of Inuit Eskimos. Generally, the Inuit seem to be a very useful example against which to compare the population of a generation ship. Those are repellent to modern sensibilities, but are strategies which were used historically. (Infanticide seems to disappear as a strategy when effective contraception exists, and where woman have control over whether to initiate a pregnancy and can choose their child's gender.)</p><p></p><p>But, this might be the wrong problem: The problem might be too few children, not too many. And, there is the same moral outrage to the idea forcing women to have children as there is to the idea in preventing them.</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 7563605, member: 13107"] There are answers (4), which is to provide better education, especially to women, and to provide more reproductive control to women, and (5), have economic policies that incentivize lower birth rates (basically, make it such that one's offspring do better if there are fewer of them, generally, by having offspring do better if they are better educated and have a richer upbringing). From what I've read, these are effective at reducing birth rates. I can see that these would be ineffective for certain groups. If a group firmly believed that they should have many children as a mandate, that would counteract the effects of (4) and (5). There is also the option (6): Infanticide and killing elders. See for example, the practices of Inuit Eskimos. Generally, the Inuit seem to be a very useful example against which to compare the population of a generation ship. Those are repellent to modern sensibilities, but are strategies which were used historically. (Infanticide seems to disappear as a strategy when effective contraception exists, and where woman have control over whether to initiate a pregnancy and can choose their child's gender.) But, this might be the wrong problem: The problem might be too few children, not too many. And, there is the same moral outrage to the idea forcing women to have children as there is to the idea in preventing them. Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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