Coercive population control

Frank Notestein

(August 16, 1902 - February 19, 1983) was an American demographer

He was also the first director of the Population Division of the United Nations, 1946-1948

to impose more drastic changes on a large scale implies many risks, not least to the regime that undertakes them. The price for this type of population control may well be the institution of a totalitarian regime.

The logical target for legal and institutional pressures is the family: pressures to postpone marriages; economic pressures and inducements for married women to work outside the home; provision of free abortions for all women requesting them; downgrading of familial roles in comparison with extrafamilial roles; and restriction of housing and consumer goods.