I Legal Dimensions of the Population Issue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Population and Law -- 3 Population Growth and the Right of Privacy -- II Some Factors Affecting Childbearing -- 4 Constitutional Law and “the Tragedy of the Commons” -- 5 Legal Protection and Female Employment -- 6 Housing Policies Prohibiting Children -- III Fertility Control Policies: Some Possibilities -- 7 Government Regulation of Sexual Relationships -- 8 Taxation and the Control of Fertility -- 9 Tuition in the Public Schools -- IV Two Contemporary Controversial Issues -- 10 Abortion -- 11 Immigration -- Afterword -- Notes.