[Dunno why this popped up in my RSS feed today, as it's an older review...]
I can understand society writing off the old folks as useless baggage, because we do that all-too-often anyway, but a child?
Zero Population Growth was a hot topic right around the '70s.
Also, the trailer for the upcoming Death Race with Jason Statham looked really disappointing-- there *may* be some satire, but probably not even as much as in The Running Man, and the drab color scheme was a letdown after the fun goofy cars on show here.