Professor Oladapo Ladipo, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association for Reproduction and Family Health (ARFH), has stated that God is in support of family planning since He frowns at uncontrolled child birth.
He said: "God
himself does not support producing children you cannot cater for. God does not
tell us to bear children that we will be seeing die under-nourished and leading
unproductive lives."
He therefore urged African nations to intensify efforts aimed at promoting and enforcing birth control. This according to him is essential to ensure that African families only give birth to the number of children they can satisfactorily take care of. He stated this in an interview with Vanguard newspapers.
“There is great wisdom in having
only the number of children you can provide for. We need a population
moderation and management policy because people should not just be having as
many children as they want.
“It is important for Nigerians and
indeed Africans generally to recognize the need to have just the number of
children we can care for, rather than just reproducing and expecting God to
take care of them. There is no reason for having children who are just
languishing in abject poverty, roaming around, doing nothing productive,” he said.
Concerning the role
of family planning in national development, he said most of the
developed nations of the world are nations that promote family planning
by regulating the number of children each family can give birth to.
He said: “We are just being deliberately blind to
reality. It has been shown clearly in the Asian countries there is no country
classified as developed that has not moderated its population. If one person is
telling another to reproduce recklessly, to me, it is a crime to the state. It
is a crime to just be reproducing recklessly and transferring the
responsibility of looking after the children to somebody else”.
Professor Oladapo Ladipo, the President/CEO, Association for
Reproduction and Family Health, ARFH, Abuja - See more at:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/the-dangers-of-too-many-children-by-professor-ladipo/#sthash.XQ3Xn0go.dpuf
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God is in support of family planning and we support for financial planning program. Population moderation and management policy because people should not just be having as many children as they want but not maintaining the financial planning. Maintaining the financial services and supporting the family planning are two different things.
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