Family planning is about women’s rights and their capacity to make decisions about their health and wellbeing. It is a significant investment to promote human capital development, combat poverty and harness a demographic dividend, thus contributing to equitable and sustainable economic development.

On its own, family planning is an integral part of the steps towards curbing maternal death. In addition to all this, family planning plays a pivotal role in population growth, human development and good health.

It has been proved over time that contraceptives utilized for birth spacing services help reduce maternal mortality, pre-term birth, and incidences of underweight that causes most of neonatal deaths.

No doubt, the advantages of robust family planning services cannot be overstretched. However, family planning is also essential towards poverty reduction. There is a direct relationship between family planning and poverty.

When couples have the number of children they can cater for, it makes life easier. A planned family in which the children are adequately spaced is likely to live with a higher standard.

By providing cheaper and more reliable contraception and more convenient services, family planning reduces ill-timed and unwanted childbearing. Family planning helps to directly increase household income and reducing poverty rates. Failure or inability to sustain family planning programmes locally and internationally, leads to increased population growth and poorer health of populations, especially among the poor.

The list of the advantages of family planning is long. It begins with maternal, infant and child health. Infant survival, nutrition, educational attainment and general wellbeing are all part of the gains.

There is enough evidence from the United Nations and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations to support this conclusion. However, the status of girls and women is perhaps one of the most important determinants of the effect of family planning on poverty.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) particularly notes that family planning is key to poverty reduction and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Family planning is a prerequisite for achievement and critical link to meet each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by UN member states for global development, and for realizing the human right of reproductive choice. In essence, giving people access to family planning is crucial to achieving the SDGs by 2030.

Targets in two of the SDGs – Goal 3 and Goal 5 – call for universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights, but unless there are sustained campaigns for wider access to family planning and improved reproductive healthcare, and more people are offered modern contraception, other interventions to reduce poverty and inequality may be far less effective.

One of the proposed benchmarks for the indicators in the SDGs is to meet at least 75 percent of demand for family planning by 2030.

In Nigeria and many other target countries, more women and girls have begun using modern contraceptives but the total number of those utilizing a modern method of contraception is still lower than anticipated and progress towards the target of giving an additional 120 million women access to contraception by 2020 is off track.

The need to revitalise and promote family planning in Nigeria is essential because the challenges facing Nigerian families in the future will be greater when it comes to population issues.

Poverty rates are particularly high among households headed by single women, and childbirth is often the event preceding these households’ poverty spells. Having legal access to birth control as early as possible significantly reduces probability that of women ending subsequently in poverty. Early legal access to oral contraception reduces female poverty measurably according to findings that take into consideration education, employment status, and household composition.

https://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/10/family-planning-and-poverty-reduction.html

How people give births to children they can't take care of still beats my imagination, the mentality that this children will grow up to become something is archaic and crazy, the foundation you give to your children determine their bright future, and also the poor man doesn't have any other things that excite him , if any good thing happens he only calls mama nkechi that will unwrap her wrapper and boom another 9 month unlike the rich that goes to shows, holidays , funfare etc..am entitled to my opinion..wow almost FTC missed it

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Imagine that Ugandan woman with 44 children. Look at the below average life they're living whilst she works 4 jobs. If she had given birth to atleast 4 or 5, she would have given them a better life

No family planning
Children are blessings from God so give birth to as many as possible

Family planning is the way forward..

2 Kids at most

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Imagine that Ugandan woman with 44 children. Look at the below average life they're living whilst she works 4 jobs. If she had given birth to atleast 4 or 5, she would have given them a better life

LMAO majority of us are just the cause of our problems

Continuous enlightenment is the way to go.

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certainly any family who wishes to enjoy higher standard of living must embrace family planning and birth control

wonderful post

but is there any adverse effect to the use of contraceptives like infertility?

"Any parents who brought kids they can't cater for into this world, should be killed and feed to the lions"

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The thing is, young people these days have learned a lesson due to our dwindling economy. Now young people just want to have two or three kids.

This is excluding the north of course, those ones don't want to hear Family planning.

FreshBoss007:
wonderful post


but is there any adverse effect to the use of contraceptives like infertility?

Yes there are effects.it is advisable one contact a physician to determine what is best for u

In thiese times when quality education costs so much,you give birth to many kids?

Your village ppl are like hunchback on you..

2 or 3 is ok.

print out this your post, photocopy it and distribute it to every house in niaja especially the north

Contraceptives have effects on women. Am sure no guy go gree use am if d one for sperm supression is introduced. How hard is pull out self

tunary:
No family planning

Children are blessings from God so give birth to as many as possible

Muslim spotted. Shame on u if u give birth to children u cant cater for

Hmm

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Imagine that Ugandan woman with 44 children. Look at the below average life they're living whilst she works 4 jobs. If she had given birth to atleast 4 or 5, she would have given them a better life

What if she refuses to work as hard as she does now if she only had 4-5 kids?

[quote author=tunary post=72445537]No family planning

Children are blessings from God so give birth to as many as possible [/quote.
Rainfall is also blessing from God but we still have to use umbrella.

Erradicate corruption destroy poverty.limiting child aids nothing.

With the present state of the nation, birth control is highly necessary....

In 2014, I didn't think nigeria will be this bad, not in 20 years.



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So China that had a one child policy did not have people who were extremely poor?

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Imagine that Ugandan woman with 44 children. Look at the below average life they're living whilst she works 4 jobs. If she had given birth to atleast 4 or 5, she would have given them a better life

Is that woman actually the biological mother of those 44 children?

eph12:

What if she refuses to work as hard as she does now if she only had 4-5 kids?

Then that's her problem.

MUSLIMS HATES THE WORD “FAMILY PLANNING”

fear northerners...