Family Planning

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Family Planning

The issue of family planning is closely linked to what is called “ Population

Explosion”. For sometime population growth was relatively slow; the number of dying

was about the same as the number of people who were born. To look at it in another

way, the number of people on this planet is presently increasing by about 170 people per

minute. That adds up to 250,000 people everyday, enough to start another single city.

This also means the population increases 90 million per year. That would be the

equivalent of three Canada’s. This growth is occurring in all parts of the world

With modern scientific advances , diseases that often caused death were now

being able to be treated.

The number of people were starting to increase. This made the government start

to worry and decided that maybe it would be a wise idea to limit the population growth

through family planning.

A good example of this is, suppose a farmer owns ten acres of land. If he has

ten children and divides the land equally among all ten children they will each I acre of

land. If each of those children have ten children and has to divide his land equally that

means that they get only one tenth of the land that their grandfather had. The children

with one tenth of the land will have a much harder time to make ends meet, as they

won’t have as much land and they will not be able to produce enough food for their

family. Eventually there will be a family but no land for them. If the family is in trouble

them the society is in trouble. This will make a big struggle for them in life.

As the number of people increase there are greater demands on forests, topsoil,

and fresh water. This means that the resources are going to be used up. Then what is

going to happen for the next generation?

This is why the government finds it increasingly difficult to p...