Government attempts to affect individual fertility are nothing new. The most significant cases are India's sterilization prpgram of the 1970s and China's one ch

Government attempts to affect individual fertility are nothing new. The most significant cases are India's sterilization prpgram of the 1970s and China's one child policy. On the other side countries like Japan today want to increase fertility. Notice that a lot of these programs are about creating social incentives/disincentives as much as about technology. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization