
Family planning policy
I am not that kind of stock or ready morally to suggest that forced family planning should be the order of the day. But, I am ready to say that every family should decide in the developing countries to agree on a gradual reduction plan on child birth.
There was a time that a country's fast development could be assured through the sheer force of its population rather than the alignment of development machineries. This was said rather of countries with poor economies that were unable to make available the material wealth.
Today, with the advent of globalization, a country's development is faster with more machineries and automation. In view of this and other factors, it is time to be stricter on family planning than any other preceding time.
I think the days for producing honorably 7-10 children are fast over with global climatic changes and the scarcity of food. It may be worthwhile therefore to make family planning an international issue and realize its outcome through various stages.
The first step would be to launch a world and country wide educational campaign stating the fact that the time for unlimited child birth is over for every family by global phenomena and the necessities to cope up with the demands of the 21st century; and with those reasons every family in the developing countries should realize the urge for the reduction of child birth to a bear minimum number.
The second step should build upon that and become rather stricter than the first one. This time, a moratorium on child birth should be universally declared with the agreement of each country for a good period of time until the per capita income and productive capacity of that nation changes numerically and qualitatively.
The third step should be on evaluation and the positive outcome of the two steps above and to announce the allowable number of children for a family within a decade or so and lay the conditions to be in force towards the positive realization of this step.
The issuance and overall supervision of this policy should be, of necessity, that of the United Nations Organization, while the monitoring part should fall under regional organizations. The implementation and realization roles should be left with each country's government and people so that there would be effective outcome of the policy.
I think, perceiving present day family panning, though seems perfectly an internal matter, it has, more and more, become an international issue, and a question of human right. A government should not be held responsible for a state of affairs that is most of the time out of its control. Sure a government may be able to feed and employ gainfully a population that is in its plan and not unknown entities. Thus the rapid increase of a country's population has become a variable to reckon with. I think if a government is expected to give a good service to the people of that country, it has to curb the wild birth of children.
Today, children are born uncontrolled to any family and it would be an infamy of justice to consider such children honorable citizens of that country while the truth is they do not have any thing to feed on. So, through an effective universal policy instrument, family planning should be the concern of the world community of nations for the first time and not of any particular single country
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