What Are The Advantages Of Family Planning?

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Family planning could

save millions of infant lives each year by reducing the number of high risk births

, and could lead to significant improvements in infant nutrition by allowing the mother to breast feed longer and by reducing the incidence of low birth weight.

What are the disadvantages of using family planning?


They do not protect the couple against sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

. Where appropriate, couples must use condoms or other barrier methods as well. Couples require careful observation and training for accurate recording, for a few months, before they can be used reliably to predict fertile days.

What are the benefits of family planning to the individual and to society?

Family planning

enables women to be healthier and have more equal opportunities to pursue an education, a career, and financial security

. With fewer children to support, families can accumulate greater assets and invest more in their children's health and well-being.

What is the importance of family planning in the community?

Family planning

helps nations to reach social and economic goals

, beginning at the community level. Family planning is an important and cost-effective investment for governments and contributes to multiple economic and health priorities, including reducing poverty.

What are the advantages of good family planning?

Family planning provides many benefits to mother, children, father, and the family.

Enables her to regain her health after delivery

. Gives enough time and opportunity to love and provide attention to her husband and children. Gives more time for her family and own personal advancement.

What is the main reason of family planning in any family?

The goal of family planning is

preventing pregnancy-related health risks in women and reducing the need for unsafe abortion and infant mortality

(see Table 1). Maternal health, risk of pregnancy and even maternal death significantly increase when births made at intervals of less than 2 years.

What is the main purpose of family planning?

Family planning allows

people to attain their desired number of children, if any, and to determine the spacing of their pregnancies

. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility.

What is the best family planning method?

The kinds of birth control that work the best to prevent pregnancy are

the implant and IUDs

— they're also the most convenient to use, and the most foolproof. Other birth control methods, like the pill, ring, patch, and shot, are also really good at preventing pregnancy if you use them perfectly.

Is contraception good or bad?

Clearly,

no modern method of is completely free of health consequences

, whether adverse or beneficial or both. Oral contraceptives, which increase the risk of a variety of cardiovascular problems, also protect against PID, ectopic pregnancy, and two cancers of the reproductive system.

What is the advantage and disadvantage of family planning?

Advantages of hormonal methods of birth control include that they are all highly effective and their effects are reversible. They do not rely on spontaneity and can be used in advance of sexual activity. Disadvantages of hormonal methods for birth control include:

The necessity of taking medications continuously

.

What is the summary of family planning?

Family planning programs have been developed and supported to provide people with

a means to achieve the number of children they desire and to reduce unwanted pregnancy

, as a means of improving the health of women and children, and to contribute to slower population growth and more rapid economic development.

What causes poor family planning?


Women lack the access

and full range of options for family planning methods. Lack of access is the major reason for their unmet needs. … In addition, high unmet needs are also a contributing factor towards elements such as women's illiteracy, gender inequity, and poverty.

What is the impact of family planning in our society?

Increased access to family planning services may also

improve children's growth and/or development

. If improved access to contraceptives allows families to better space births, mothers may experience less nutritional depletion and children may be breastfed longer, improving young children's growth.

Is family planning good for the body?

Changes in the use of contraception can have important effects on maternal and child survival. An increase in contraceptive use leads to a reduction in the number of births which, all other things being equal, means fewer maternal deaths, fewer stillbirths, and fewer children exposed to the risk of mortality.

What are the health benefits of family planning to the mother?

  • Improving maternal health and child survival. …
  • Reducing the number of abortions overall, especially unsafe abortion. …
  • Preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. …
  • Empowering women. …
  • Promoting social and economic development and security.

What are the three methods of family planning?

  • long-acting reversible contraception – the implant or intra uterine device (IUD)
  • hormonal contraception – the pill or the Depo Provera injection.
  • barrier methods – condoms.
  • emergency contraception.
  • fertility awareness.
  • permanent contraception – vasectomy and tubal ligation.
Maria LaPaige
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Maria LaPaige
Maria is a parenting expert and mother of three. She has written several books on parenting and child development, and has been featured in various parenting magazines. Maria's practical approach to family life has helped many parents navigate the ups and downs of raising children.