根据美国的人权自由法则,1967年通过了:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
一个家庭生多少个的问题。一个家庭真的有“人权”决定生多少个吗?
1968年,Garrett Hardin 在Sceicne的文章"The Tragedy of the Commons"认为:
”Freedom To Breed Is Intolerable“
因为,地球的资源是有限的。你生一大堆,就剥夺了其他人的资源。
starved to death; if, thus, overbreeding brought its own "punishment" to the germ line then there would be no public interest in controlling the breeding of families.But our society is deeply committed tothe welfare state, and hence is confronted with another aspect of the tragedy of the commons.