10 benefits of family planning

                


Family planning or birth control is the practice that allows people to make informed decision about the number of children in a family and determine the interval of pregnancies. It’s the practice of preventing unintended pregnancies through the use of contraceptive or contragestive methods.  

                               Benefits

1. It allows parents to invest more in each child. Children with fewer siblings tend to stay in school longer than those with many siblings.

2. It helps reduce unwanted pregnancies in adolescents. Pregnant adolescents are more likely to have preterm or low birth –weight babies.

3. It helps to prevent the spread of Sexually Transmited Diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

4. It helps prevent pregnancy-related health risk in women. Evidence suggests that women with have more than 4 children are at increased risk of maternal mortality.

5. It helps in reducing infant mortality. Infants of mothers who die as a result of giving birth also have a greater risk of death and poor health. 

6. It helps slow population growth.

7. It helps reduce the need for unsafe abortion.

8. It enables people to make informed decision about their reproductive health.

9. It helps secure the wellbeing and autonomy of the women.

10. It’s relatively easy to achieve the goals of family planning through the use of birth control methods.

 There are a lot of different birth control(family planning) methods that work really well and are easy to use...