Riya Jain

Times Of India

Family planning is the practice of controlling the number of children one has
and the intervals between their births. Today the need of the hour is to make
family planning methods more accessible to people. Family planning methods
should be within reach of  every person. Over the past having realised the
complications of unplanned pregnancies that women and families have to
suffer from, governments of many countries have taken initiatives to make
family planning methods more accessible to communities and they have
succeeded to a certain extent. What is really important is the awareness of
the people especially relating to family planning. There are so many
misconceptions and so much ignorance about the use of family planning
methods that women and even men in rural and even urban areas and
especially in certain communities stay away from the use of family planning
methods. People are not aware of it, and they don’t know that it is easily
accessible. So what they resort to in times of emergency are the operative
interventions which are complicated which can sometimes cause
complications in women. So in addition to making it accessible the need is
also to educate the people about the simplicity and advantages of using family
planning methods. So different methods are available depending on age and
need of the family. People should be educated enough  to decide and discuss
with health workers and doctors about which method would be best for them.
It is only one of the several and simpler family planning methods that are
available to society nowadays.