The article talks about how Algeria is starting to become over populated and start to have smaller families. This was published in 1985 so the article is not up to date on today. During this time the believed they were becoming over populated. They could not support a large population as stated here from the article " Providing food, jobs, houses and schools for this mass of people is a task that not even Algeria's oil and gas wealth can pay for, according to the 28-page study published in the weekly Revolution Africaine" they say that even of they get all this money they still wont be capable of holding that many people. They are trying to persuade women in the country to have less children and are giving out birth control. The reason they have not used it before was because it went against their religion. Instead they would use the method of killing female infinites to lower the population. Although birth control was allowed in 1963 no one got the memo as you can say because no one was using it and they were still having large families. they are trying to prevent bad things from happening. this is a good example on restrictive polices