India’s Two-Child Policy

Fascinating article on little known regional population control policies in India that have had a terrible effect on their people. The laws in question prohibit anyone with more than two children from running for office. Researchers from the United States, The United Kingdom, and India, are showing that this has had a very bad impact on sex ratio. More alarmingly, the laws had the opposite of their desired effect by leading to more poverty. From the article: “There is evidence that men were divorcing their wives to remain eligible for elections, and that such laws were putting the third children at a disadvantage.”

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