A situation where parents or couples give birth to children beyond the numbers they can cater for, has been seen as not only leading to increase in population, but economic hardship and sometimes death of either pregnant mother or baby during delivery.
In today's news analysis correspondent underscores the important of family planning which is also known as "child spacing", in addressing issues of over population, economic hardship, and death of pregnant mother and baby during delivery
The term family planning can still be referred to as child spacing, which simply means leaving the woman to rest for a while before conceiving again and bearing the next child.
In most climes of the world husband and wife or man and women often sat down to plan the number of children they want.
Some of these countries government usually specify the number of children from a family that can enjoy govt social welfare packages, that is to say if a family exceed the number, such family takes care of the exceeded number.
In the Africa society in those days, our forefathers used to give birth to a very large numbers of children as possible as they can.
It was a known fact then, that our forefathers used to have a very large vast of farmlands, where these large number of children are allocated to their various portions to till from farm thereby leading to increase of production in farm produce to be sold for money and also in turn address the issue of hunger in the family.
But the reverse is the case in today's African society, where man and woman or husband and wife give birth to many children, without having large land to be used for farming.
Many of these parents or couples are jobless, while some of them are doing menial jobs or petty trades, businesses at best civil servants.
Statistics have shown that family that give birth to a sizable number of the children of at most four, do have less difficulties in taking care of them, than a family that has a large number.
Ignorance has been identified as one of the few reasons why most African parents or couples do not observe family planning.
This is why the government through the ministry of health must champion the cause in creating awareness on the importance of family planning.
Furthermore, the ministry of education should make it compulsory for family planning to be taught in schools, so that the children who are our future leaders of tommorow.
Faith base institutions also have a role to play by preaching the benefit of giving birth to the number of children they can cater for.
There are different contraceptive a medical expert can recommed fit for one to use, which will help in child spacing or prevent pregnancy.
No doubt family planning is the way to go in reducing mortality rate, economic hardship amongst others.
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