Gross Overpopulation Is One Issue That Is Suicide For Any Politician To Address. We Are In Crisis.

[Revanchist]

63. I'm just stating the main causes for overpopulation, not advocating solutions

The answer isn't as simple as just have less kids, because frankly, someone is going to have to take care of all the old people, especially with the doubling of the rates dementia and other age related diseases. Take my situation for example, my mother-in-law had two children, her son and my wife and one grandchild from her son who divorced decades ago. Both of her children and her grandchild are gone so I'm basically helping to support her by working around 50 hours in the store she owns to take the pressure off of her. I'm an only child so if something major happens to my parents I'll have to decide what to do since they live several states away and I can't physically be in two places at once. Luckily I own a house with a spare bedroom so I can move them here if they ever so desire but then, without a support structure of other siblings and the state our nation's long-term healthcare system is (you need to go broke before the government will offer any real assistance) my options are limited. Now to see a real world example of how this is effecting a country google Japan and aging population.

For this reason a simple answer of one child per couple as some people have suggested is not a working solution, not every couple will have a child, couples may have abortions until the have a child of the sex they want (see China) and there won't be enough of a population to take care of all the old people

Currently, just over 11,000 people in the city in receipt of nursing care have some form of dementia, compared with around 8,000 just seven years ago. But they do not include a large number of people who have yet to be diagnosed. If they are included, local officials estimate Matsudo will be home to as many as 26,000 dementia sufferers by 2025.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/dementia-towns-japan-ageing-population

Now while science is the culprit of our problem, it might also be the solution. Personally, I think autism and and dementia research need precedent over other diseases. Cancer might kill you, but the ones I mentioned can require years if not decades of medical care before death occurs.