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[Hunger Games] Does the Capitol enforce a breeding quota on the Districts?

Even Districts like 12 seem to have a very high number of kids. I would think that over the course of 74 years, the rate of people having children would rapidly decline out of fear of them being reaped for the Hunger Games.
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People continue to reproduce even in harsh, totalitarian conditions in the real world. The reality is that impoverished people tend to have more kids since that's the only reliable safety net.

If you're some poor coal miner in District 12 and you choose not to have kids to avoid seeing them get reaped, you're just going to destroy your body by age 30 without ever earning enough for meaningful savings. If you're unable to work then you're doomed to go home alone and starve to death. If you have 3 or 4 kids you'll guarantee someone is gonna stick around to take care of you in your old age, even if one of them gets reaped, or another dies of malnutrition or gets beaten by the Peacekeepers too hard.

Avoiding kids is much more of a modern conception when you can get an education, career, and pay for your own retirement without devoting 18 years of your life to raising a kid. Probably people in the cushy core districts like 1, 2, and 4 have the luxury of choice in that regard.