Man has the power to control the population through preventative check, balancing the birth rate brought on by the poor blaming the upper class and not taking responsibility for their choices, causing an increase of poverty. Malthus believed that the way to control population and hunger was to prevent overpopulation to occur, he would do this using preventative check, where he would make a limit to the amount of offspring that each family could produce in order to keep poverty and crime to a minimum. He believed that there was a connection between poverty and population that as population increased, so did poverty and hunger because the amount of food didn't change, but as the population increased, the food had to be distributed to more people. to try and prevent poverty, overpopulation and hunger, Malthus proposed a child limit, to increase the amount of food received by citizens.