Are Cash Bonuses The Answer To Curbing Population Growth?

I just read this article in the New York Times about how the government is giving recently married couples cash bonuses to wait two years before having children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/world/asia/22india.html?pagewanted=1&hp

Setting aside the whole population growth issue, it does make sense for couples not have to children immediately after getting married. I believe that couples should take some time to enjoy the freedoms of being childless because once they have kids, they won't be able to get those freedoms back (at least not until the kids go off to college, and by then, they might be too old to want to experience the things they would have done when they were newlyweds). Children are a huge responsibility, more so when they are young and do not have an understanding of how the world functions.

As the article states, such a strategy would require the implementation of more programs educating young people about contraception. A lot of Indian parents don't go out of their way to educate their kids about birth control because (1) They expect their kids to procreate directly after getting married and (2) The act of premarital sex is one that tends to be frowned upon in Indian culture, so sex education is a rarity in schools. Considering that marriage at an early age is common within the culture, one can imagine how many girls in India enter marriages knowing about the various types of contraception.

In the words of my favorite band, "If this is a test, I'm losing my shit."