Title: The Effect of Population Control Policies on Societal Fragmentation,
Abstract: Population control policies are proposed and in some places employed as a
means towards curbing population growth. This paper is concerned with a
disturbing side-effect of such policies, namely, the potential risk of societal
fragmentation due to changes in the distribution of family sizes. This effect
is illustrated in some simple settings and demonstrated by simulation. In
addition, the dependence of societal fragmentation on family size distribution
is analyzed. In particular, it is shown that under the studied model, any
population control policy that disallows families of 3 or more children incurs
the possible risk of societal fragmentation.