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YEAR: 1974

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Some dimensions of population and family planning: goals and means.

AUTHORS

Stycos JM

SOURCE

Journal of Social Issues 30(4): 1-29. 1974.

ABSTRACT

Where population planning programs agree and disagree are discussed in terms of ultimate and intermediate goals,

and the means by which goals are achieved. The ultimate goals of population control vary from improving the quality

of life to insuring its survival. Economic development considerations are also within its purview. The degree of

success in reaching these goals is measured in aggregate terms. In contrast, the ultimate goals of family planning

refer mainly to the female and to the family group. 3 goals are the most improtant: family health and welfare, female

liberation, and human rights. Differences in emphasis or intensity of concern between population planning

advocates and family planning advocates occur over intermediate or facilitating goals and over means. Thus, family

planning emphasizes persuasion, freedom of choice and birth control as a rights; population planning leans toward

stronger measures, such as inducement, other behavior modification techniques, and lays stress upon birth control

as a duty that the state should require. Classification of population planning and family planning schools of thought,

according to their degree of concern for population problems and the difficulty of solution, reveals that population

planners are identified at a medium intensity of concern, with a tendency to favor persuasion and inducement.

Family planning advocates have only a modest concern for population and inducement. Family planning advocates

have only a modest concern for population problems, but are grouped somewhere between primary means

(government services) and abortion. Disparities between the perceived seriousness and the means to counter it are

due to the hetergeneity of goals and ideological considerations. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3543-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Some dimensions of population and family planning: goals

and means.", is(are) Stycos JM. The source of this article is "Journal of Social Issues 30(4): 1-29. 1974.". This

article was published in 1974 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 3543-06. All rights

reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 33543

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