Give education not policy

It is true that the resources that any nation possess are extremely limited and this limitation has to be managed else, the resources will be exploited to the point of exhaustion. The most effective way to achieve this is to control population. " The lesser the number of people vying for a particular service, the lesser is the risk of scarcity". This effective solution has been discovered by government and that's probably the reason why we see countries like India, China etc adopting policies like "a small family, a healthy family" or "One child per couple". In China for instance, government adopted methods to make life easier for those that stick to the policy. Priority is given to them in areas like health, housing, retirement benefits, education etc. These policies may seem to be perfectly working but we fail to realize that people accepted it not by choice but compulsion. If incentives are attached, be rest assured that people will want to partake (not because they liked it but because they are driven by the desire to gain from the government ( cutting from the national cake)). Why attach conditions to services that we're suppose to have uninterrupted access to?.
One important thing that government failed to realize is that the number of children in a family depends on the region, religion and or level of education. There's a superstitious believe in places like Bihar, that if there religion is minority, other religion will dominate them and so, the must keep producing more. Funny as it may sound but true. That is what they believe and it is what you believe that ll work for you. What people like this need is not a compulsion through policies or laws but a change of mind-set through education. Some families in the case of poverty are driven to produce more kids because they believe that more kids means more earning member of the family but they fail to realise that it could also mean more mouth to feed. If these families are educated, it will be much more easier for them to see this. Education is an eye-opener and it should be given chance to straighten the twists and turns in our communities. The fertility rate in Iran for example reduces not because of government policies but their level of education.
Conclusively, "around the world, more young people are enrolling in schools and advancing their education. This welcome trend is likely to affect the health and fertility in developing countries because women with more education wait longer to have children and tend to have smaller and healthier families" (pg 17, transitions in world population). Education must be encouraged because it will willingly change what policies can only forcefully change.