The Need for Family Planning

Family Planning The increase in the amount of people in poverty is very concerning. Many people are concerned about how to raise the standard of living of these people and keep it there in a sustainable manner rather than having to continue to throw more donated and government money at the problem. At the end of the day, the big issues would seem to be family planning. While it is dangerous territory to try and dictate who should have children and who should not.

Of course, this would involve a predefined set of standards, there is a lot of credence to the idea of figuring out what can be afforded and what should be avoided. While it may be an uncomfortable subject to broach, the current trajectories that are seen even in the United States are not remotely good and they need to change.

Analysis The author of this report could absolutely look at the plight and challenge of family planning in countries besides the United States but the country does have plenty of examples that prove that family planning is not happening remotely enough and the effects are seen far and wide. Just as one example, the amount of children born out of wedlock in the United States has been shooting up for years and has reached nearly half for all races and peoples combined.

When speaking of minorities, the rate of non-married mothers can be as much as three fourths (Weissman, 2014). Another issue is that the poor and under-educated tend to have more kids than those that are more affluent and educated. The latter occurs has seemingly been happening mostly because the rich and educated are more liable to put off having kids while there is not nearly as much precaution and diligence being seen with the poor (Lerner, 2011).

The author of this report sees a major issue with this because this is not sustainable or a good thing over time. The more this sort of thing happens, the more broken families there are, the more unnecessary step- and other reassembled families there are and the more kids that grow up in poverty. There are many assert that schools are generally doing fine. However, poverty is something that greatly afflicts the performance of students by itself.

If one sees this to fruition and sees the process repeat itself over a number of generations, it is not hard to see what will happen in the long-term (ASCD, 2016). Access to family planning programs for the poor and those that should otherwise not have kids or at least should wait before doing so would help greatly. It has to be driven home just how much havoc can be wrought when people start too early and/or they do not have the proper financial and other resources in place.

Barriers that exist to people getting help would having to work or care for children and this would preclude them from having the time to work through a program. Another barrier is that not everyone thinks they have an issue with family planning and they just want to do what they wish. However, the impacts and effects have to be shown and how they hurt both society and the local community in the long run.

Determinants that aggravate and worsen the situation is poverty itself, unemployment, racism, sexism and absentee parents, with the latter usually being fathers who do not support the children they help bring into this world financially or emotionally (Guttmacher, 2016). Conclusion The arc and trajectory that this country is undergoing is very troubling but it is entirely correctable. What we have now is a foster system brimming with kids and a lot of parents, for one or more reasons, that cannot (or will not) handle their responsibilities.

There is only so much that family planning programs can do but there has to be a new culture that supports planning kids and family structures in advance, condemning and punishing any parent who acts in reckless manner and so.