The issue of family planning is closely linked to what is called " Population .
For sometime population growth was relatively slow; the number of dying .
was about the same as the number of people who were born. To look at it in another .
way, the number of people on this planet is presently increasing by about 170 people per .
minute. That adds up to 250,000 people everyday, enough to start another single city. .
This also means the population increases 90 million per year. That would be the .
equivalent of three Canada's. This growth is occurring in all parts of the world.
With modern scientific advances , diseases that often caused death were now .
being able to be treated. .
The number of people were starting to increase. This made the government start .
to worry and decided that maybe it would be a wise idea to limit the population growth .
through family planning.
A good example of this is, suppose a farmer owns ten acres of land. If he has .
ten children and divides the land equally among all ten children they will each I acre of .
land. If each of those children have ten children and has to divide his land equally that .
means that they get only one tenth of the land that their grandfather had. The children .
with one tenth of the land will have a much harder time to make ends meet, as they .
won't have as much land and they will not be able to produce enough food for their .
family. Eventually there will be a family but no land for them. If the family is in trouble .
them the society is in trouble. This will make a big struggle for them in life.
As the number of people increase there are greater demands on forests, topsoil, .
and fresh water. This means that the resources are going to be used up. Then what is .
going to happen for the next generation?.
This is why the government finds it increasingly difficult to provide the housing, .
schools sanitary facilities, roads and health care needed for the size of the population.
