The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster.

The real question is why you would possibly think it's a good idea to try.

As an upper limit? As a lower limit? What do you mean?

Forcing people who don't want kids to have two is insane. Who will make it happen? Is there a conception agency where agents just go a rape women in this imagined scenario?

Forcing a third pregnancy to terminate is also pretty insane. Suppose the mother doesn't even know she's pregnant until pretty far along. Suppose a mother hides her pregnancy and gives birth in secret; is that baby getting killed?

In either case, what is the punishment for violation? Suppose a woman is incapable of having kids when you mandated 2; is she to be executed for being unable to fulfill this societal requirement? Suppose a woman intentionally had more than her government-permitted 2 children; what is her sentence for providing extra mouths to feed?

It's unethical, it's not reasonably enforceable, and frankly, I'm not sure I understand what such a policy would even be attempting to accomplish.

nope but I don't think we should subsidize having kids with tax brakes and such. 100% public education and meals at school and we should have universal healthcare. so if children are born provide for their needs as we do for other members of society but no tax breaks or such.

Are you asking if it should be a thing, or if it exists?

The current trend on world population has us hitting 10.3 billion in 2080, and then it starts to recede. The idea of an overpopulated world comes from a book written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb”. The actual problem we’re facing in the west is a rapidly aging population, and birth rates that are falling off a cliff.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971

no