There is several definition of family planning. An Expert committee (1971) of the WHO defined family planning as “a way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntarily, upon the basis of knowledge, attitudes and responsible decisions by individuals and couples, in order to promote the health and welfare of the family group and thus contribute effectively to the social development of a country.
Another expert committee defined and described family planning as follows:
"Family planning refers to practices that help individual or couples to attain certain objectives:
• To avoid unwanted births
• To bring about wanted births
• To regulate the intervals between pregnancies
• To control the time at which births occur in relation to the ages of the parent; and
• To determine the number of children in the family
Objectives of family planning:
• To bring about wanted birth
• To regulate the interval between pregnancy
• To control the time at which births occur in relation to the ages of the parents.
• To determine the number of children in the family
• To reduce abortions
• To improve the economic condition of the country and to eliminate poverty.
• To improve the developmental activities of the country.
Contraception:
It means prevention of conception by methods other than abstinence from coitus.
Contraceptive:
The term contraceptive include all measures temporary or permanent designed to prevent pregnancy due to coital act.
An ideal contraceptive method should fulfill the following criteria:
1) Widely acceptable.
2) Inexpensive.
3) Simple to use.
4) Safe.
5) Highly effective.
6) Requiring minimal motivation maintenance and supervision.
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