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The government can\u2019t coercively contain population growth, so awareness campaigns are our best bet:<\/strong> Egypt can\u2019t mimic India\u2019s mass sterilization program or China\u2019s one-child policy to contain population growth because of the religious and ethical implications, but we still need to get our population boom under control, Sahar El Gaara writes for Al Masry Al Youm<\/a><\/u>. El Gaara calls on the state and the media to instead launch aggressive awareness campaigns and impose strict child labor laws that will discourage citizens from seeing children as a source of income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government can\u2019t coercively contain population growth, so awareness campaigns are our best bet: Egypt can\u2019t mimic India\u2019s mass sterilization program or China\u2019s one-child policy to contain population growth because of the religious and ethical implications, but we still need to get our population boom under control, Sahar El Gaara writes for Al Masry Al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-625322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"8e08a0ab-e210-47e4-b380-3ceac4b9fc49","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[625297],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nGov\u2019t can\u2019t impose coercive policies to contain population growth - 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