Analyze/Some theories believe that epidemics, pandemics, genocides, partisan positions with a view to maintaining wars between peoples of the same Territory or between several Territories, famine and even certain earthquakes, are means used by the 'Men to reduce the world population, especially in the poorest countries in the world.
Although these conspiracy theories have no proven proof, there is no longer any doubt that in the face of ever-increasing demographics, Men has responsibilities to take not to limit life or the right to life, but to contribute to further reduce the precariousness in which many people live through firm extremely necessary measures that respect the life and health of others.
When it adopted its one-child policy in 1980, China approached one billion inhabitants. Those who did not respect these measures were harshly punished. However, the austerity of these measures encouraged abuses such as forced abortions and mass sterilizations. But campaigning in favour of birth control was at that time according to the leaders of the time, an economic imperative to succeed in improving the living conditions of the populations. Thirty-five years later in 2015, faced with the aging of its population, China decided to put an end to this measure.
Reproductive health and family planning
As austere and improbable as they may be, these facts bring to the centre the problem of reproductive health and the importance of family planning in a world where the population is constantly increasing and where having a child is a long-term project that aims to contribute to the growth and development of the country. And we can't get there when we don't have the freedom to choose or settle for a contraceptive method that corresponds to what we really want and not the one(s) that our environment wants to impose on us and which are likely to affect our mental health and not allow us to have a fulfilled life which is equivalent to good sexual and reproductive health which according to experts: "is a state of well-being on the physical, mental and social levels, relative to all aspects of the reproductive system that it is necessary to preserve through safe, effective, affordable, and acceptable contraceptive methods of one's choice. »
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When you decide to have a child you have to give yourself the means. Men's choices bind him as well as the consequences linked to these choices. We cannot afford to procreate disproportionately and then complain that living conditions are difficult. Even if unforeseen events may arise, you should already plan for them so as not to be overwhelmed but rather to adapt in a decent way. In fact, even if every citizen has the right to express their opinion on the state of the economic situation of their country and to ask for more concrete efforts on the part of those who govern, one must already be determined to put not all the responsibilities of our problems solely on others.
Family planning is a set of means that allow Men to take care of their children as they should and not see them as a burden. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), in addition to being a crucial set of measures for the empowerment of women, it is also a factor in reducing poverty around the world. And precariousness in the world and in Africa in particular is not only the fault of government. Those who choose to have a child must have at least the means to care for him, to clothe him, to educate him, to instruct him, and later to enable him to study and/or acquire qualifications and hand him over to government and society who have the duty to give him a job if he is in the category of those who have not or who have not been able to create their own businesses. Indeed, today we speak of entrepreneurship to signify the wish that people themselves be job creators because government cannot do everything; but first you should have already had a good education thanks to responsible parents and not those who give birth before thinking about how they are going to take care of their children.
Faced with demographic surges, we must not give birth willy-nilly. It is in this sense that consultations with family planning experts are important, as are all people able to provide the quality advice necessary for the mental well-being of parents.
Planning means knowing your limits while seeking to do better over time and not acting casually to think about it later. This is one of the causes of the precariousness in which African populations live in particular who are certainly threatened by several daily ills, but these ills are also caused by non-compliance with family planning and an inability to preserve good reproductive health. .
We are happy to see parents who expect to have one child and then find themselves with several after giving birth. And what is even more pleasant is the fact that some of them courteously and in a relaxed and not preoccupied tone invite those who want to contribute to helping them take care of these children. It is indeed this kind of attitude that really demonstrates that we have prepared ourselves to have and take care of just one child. Taking care of your reproductive health means acting within your means while respecting, for those who want to and are ready to take responsibility for their choices, the recommendations prescribed by experts so as not to suffer even more of the harmful effects of a galloping demographic which is not bad in itself but rather in the sense of insufficient resources.
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