Population Growth & Family Planning

Nov 12th, 2006, in IM Posts, by David

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Parvita Says:
November 12th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Just to add this matter, Jakarta is one of the places where family planning failed. Most of the people that have lots of children are poor families. At the end of the day, they cannot educate nor give proper health care and fooding them so the poverty cirlce goes forever.

Sutiyoso claimed on TV that the KB is successful in Jakarta. He stated that it is the urbanisation that cause the population growth in Jakarta. He should go to the kampung2 kumuh in Jakarta and look for himself and observe how many poor mothers have more than 3 children. And the other thing is, one man can have more than one family. So although one women has 2 kids, if the man has 3 wives, that means he has 6 kids! I was astounded by this view, talking to a women with 5 kids, a wife of a truck driver. When I asked them, they said the husbands don’t like using condoms. And the women seems to be difficult to access contraception or don’t think about it too much.

Most of the people still believe that children are God’s gift, the more you have, the more you are blessed. But at the same time, the uneducated ones don’t realize that the gift should be taken care of. Socialization of KB seems to not work and it is scary looking at the future of Jakarta, let alone other parts of Indonesia. Education is important, socialization without education is almost a wast of time.
mrXgroovy Says:
November 12th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
sorry, what predictable reasons??

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