[Assam] Rome: Penalty for Celibacy; India - World's first family planning

[umesh sharma]

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

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