Is adoption an effective tactic to control population?

While I support the premise of the question, I don't think it is the most efficient method of population control. There are certain problems with asking couples to adopt instead of opting for biological children: 1. read more

Adoption can be promoted to support many orphan kids of our society. But It can’t be an effective alternative for population control. Population control needs a general approach towards controlling the birthrate and death rate at mass level. With more maturity of society, we will see many couples opting for adoption. read more