China's one-child policy, from 1980 to 2015, achieved its population-control goal but left the country with a severely skewed gender ratio and a rapidly aging population that economists now link directly to its current labor shortages and pension crisis -- a cautionary case study for any government considering mandated family-size limits.
Feels like if the population keeps growing so fast, resources are eventually going to run short for everyone, so some kind of limit might become necessary.