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In regards to the post made by mm0506.  It seems you have missed my main point.  My point was, that one day there may be a need for a law that limits the amount children people can have.  I am not supporting forced abortions, I only mentioned forced abortions to make readers understand that I do not support them.  As for you solution, it does not address the problem, which is overpopulation.  The reason parents have to wait such a long time to adopt a child is due to the adoption system.  Parents have to fill out forms that must be approved and then go through home studies and finally be selected by a mother.  Adoption is a great thing but it does not solve the problem of over population.  I'm just saying that if the human population continues to increase, it will reach a point where the earth can no longer sustain the amount of people living on it.  This problem can only be solved by some sort of population control, like a limit on the amount of kids a women can have.

One Child Laws

Since 1979, China has had some form of a one child policy.  The one child policy was implemented in an attempt to control China’s growth. The one child Law fines and can even force women who have more than one child to have an abortion.  Predictably, critics around the world, including the U.S. Government, have called for an end to the one child law.  I agree that forced abortions are wrong, but I feel that laws that limit the number may one day be needed.  Most American’s today feel that women have a right to decide how many children they have.  Women’s rights are clearly violated under the one child law.  However, could the one child law serve a, “Greater Good”, by decreasing the population and relieving stress on valuable resources essential to the survival of mankind such as food and water.  We as Americans don’t have to worry about over population, but with a population of over 1.3 billion, China does.  The UN predicts that the world population will grow from the current 6.7 billion to over 9.1 billion by 2050.  A 2.5 billion person increase in the world population will continue to strain our already limited resources.  Americans use more resources and energy per-capita than any other country in the world.  This means that if Americans continue using resources at the current rate, they will run out of resources even quicker than other countries.  Even if Americans do decrease their wasteful usage of resources the time will eventually come when there are simply too many people for the world to support.  Some day Americans could be forced to make a decision: either allow the population to continue to increase to an unsustainable level, or limit the amount of births to stabilize the population.  I believe that even though it is unpleasant to think about a one child law or something similar to it will have to be implemented in the future.  The ultimate question we will have to ask our selves is which is worse, limiting couples to one child, or creating a world in which our children would not be able to find enough food?