Hi, I read today in Annals of Imperial Rome - by Tacitus written in 1st century CE / AD in the chapter on Tiberius and the Senate - pages 129 - 133 that there was penaly if someone didn't marry and those who had children got rewards. http://books.google.com/books?id=eRtkHtyXNSgC&dq=the+annals+of+imperial+rome+tacitus&pg=PP1&ots=SjOB8y_Wjb&sig=EbDpvbw0IV1z95_QcnzhUVEDQns&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Annals+of+Imperial+Rome+tacitus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail
Now this powerpoint at Johns Hopkins Univ says that India started the first family planning system in the world. Earlier Rome (Augustus in early AD) , France (1666) etc rewarded those with children - perhaps after most of Europe died due to plague in the earlier eras. ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/FamilyPlanning/PDFs/Session1Slides.pdf so health care improvement could perhaps lead to real efforts to control population otherwise there is incentive to have more population. any comments? Umesh Sharma Washington D.C. 1-202-215-4328 [Cell] Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info) www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used ) http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/ http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
