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Family Planning Trends in India: An Overview


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Family planning is much wider than is normally thought. It does not merely mean avoiding having children, which is taking decisions about the practice of contraception. Planning a family aims at improving the quality of life by regulating family size so that each child comes when it is wanted, gets the love, care, security and nurturing needed for the baby's total development, especially in the context of developing self-worth. Having a small family includes taking decisions on regulating and spacing childbirths, choosing suitable methods of contraception, developing parenting skills, learning family budget skills, helping childless couples to have children, counseling the parents and accessing reproductive health services. The need for family planning can be understood in terms of the family life cycle and family needs and resources.
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K. Bhamini Raghavaiah
Mysore, India

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Family planning is much wider than is normally thought. It does not merely mean avoiding having children, which is taking decisions about the practice of contraception. Planning a family aims at improving the quality of life by regulating family size so that each child comes when it is wanted, gets the love, care, security and nurturing needed for the baby's total development, especially in the context of developing self-worth. Having a small family includes taking decisions on regulating and spacing childbirths, choosing suitable methods of contraception, developing parenting skills, learning family budget skills, helping childless couples to have children, counseling the parents and accessing reproductive health services. The need for family planning can be understood in terms of the family life cycle and family needs and resources.

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