The Effects of Family Planning on a Nation's Population and its Economy

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What do you understand about Family Planning?

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Family planning is the ability to decide how many children to have and when to have them. It's also a way of preventing pregnancy through the use of contraceptives or natural means. Family planning reduces the risk of unexpected pregnancies and determination of pregnancy spacing.
However, family planning requires the consent and involvement of both partners for proper counselling to know the best method suitable for them and to support and solve any problems that may arise.

Do you think countries should regulate their population using Family Planning? How do you think that will help them? Explain.

Family planning is not only essential for individual and family health but plays a dynamic role in economic development, especially in developing countries. A high population growth rate can exhaust already scarce resources, leading to a rise in food insecurity, poverty and poor access to health care and education.
More so, family planning enables couples to plan and space their pregnancies. This helps reduce the population growth rate, allowing developing countries to distribute resources proficiently. This successfully stimulates the development of the economy by reducing the dependency ratio, increasing the proportion of working-age individuals and improving productivity.
If a country regulates its population with family planning, it will also give women a chance to participate in work face and promote gender equality.

Do you encourage family planning? Tell us your reasons.

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Family planning avoids the risk of death and mental health and prevents unwanted or unplanned pregnancies. With this, we know the implications, it's also best to respect people's resolution on how they want to have children.
However, in my opinion, I will support couples to go for family planning with better counselling and have their desired number of children. Family planning is an important aspect of reproductive health; with access to family planning, women who suffer pregnancy-related complications can still enjoy intimacy with their partner without any fear of being pregnant.

Additionally, suitable spacing between pregnancies reduces the risk of death of pregnant women as a result of complications and it allows women's bodies to recover fully from the previous pregnancy reducing complications during future pregnancies

Tell us about some of the methods or types of family planning you know or have heard of.

Some of the family planning I know include:

Condom
Condom is a method of family planning worn by a man during intercourse to prevent sperm penetration. It may not be 100% reliable as they can tear. However, they are easy to get over the counter and give some protection from sexually transmitted infections.

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Oral contraceptive
This method is very effective for women who do not remember to take their drugs every day and at the same time these pills make it difficult for sperm to penetrate a woman's womb

Injectable
In this method of family planning, an Injectable contraceptive is injected into a woman's muscles, which prevents ovulation for some period of months. This method does not need daily administration. It is a good method for women who may not remember taking their contraceptive drugs every day.

Intra Uterine Device (IDU)
This method of family planning requires inserting a small T-shaped device into the uterus, and it can be painful to insert and remove. They stay in the body for a long time, depending on how long you want them to. IUD reduces menstrual cramps and flow, effectiveness is about 99% and it starts working immediately after you insert it.

Natural method
In this method, a woman tracks her menstruation and ovulation to identify when you are fertile and avoid sex during that period. It does not have any medication, so they are cost-free, although it's sometimes not 100% reliable as the human body system can change. Most religious groups and cultures accept this method.

In summary, family planning plays a crucial role in a nation's population and economy, new couples should be supported and advised about it.

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