Family planning involves seriously planning for one's family and future. It entails more than just preventing pregnancy and includes planning factors like family size, children's education, retirement, spending quality time together, and career goals. Effective family planning requires making such plans now to determine the type of family one will have in the future.

2. Having watched the video
presentation, what do you now
think family planning is?
It is the serious planning of
the family and its
future.

3. It is more than preventing
pregnancy, though that is a
part of family planning.

4. Like everything in life, we have
to plan. What are some things
that we plan for?
We plan our meals; the
school that we want to
attend; what we want
to wear to church or
To a party.

5. We plan how we are going to
spend our money.
In the same way that we
make plans for our regular,
daily activities, so it is that
we MUST put in place
plans for having a
family.

6. When should we start planning
for a family?
Right now!!
What we do now will
determine the type of
family that we will
have in the future.

7. Family Planning
includes:
1. Planning the size of the
family – how many
children parents will have
that they can properly take
care of;

8. 2. Planning for the education of
the children of the family –
making sure that ALL the
children get a good education
or acquire a skill so that they
can look after themselves
when they are older.

9. 3. Planning for retirement when
you can no longer work and
your children are on their own.

10. 4. Spending quality time with
family members so that they
feel loved and appreciated.
This quality time is important
as it will build trust and friend-
ship between parents and children.

11. 5. Planning your
career goals –
making sure
that you uplift
yourself
academically.

12. To many
Children?
How do you
prevent this?

13. 6. Using contraceptives to
prevent unwanted
pregnancy – this
ensures that you do not
have children that you
cannot take care of.

14. To limit the size of the family,
certain birth control methods or
contraceptives can be used. These
include:

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