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FAMILY PLANNING A NECESSITY IN NIGERIAN FAMILY SPHERE

I know of a woman who has six children. The entire family live in a one room apartment.

This is a common scenario especially in Lagos where a large number of families live in or squat in one room apartments or shelters. The grieving thing about this is that these families are on the average comprised of eight members with all of them sharing one room.

Apart from the health implications, my concern is the number of children these people have that they cannot afford to take care of. So many of them resort to sharing them out as house helps to several other families.

Why not breed the number you can take care of?
Family planning options are available and family planning advice can be gotten in almost any hospital especially government hospitals.

Many of the methods are cheap and affordable. So instead of increasing overhead and living costs, why don't they embrace a family planning option today?
The government should also in their bid to eradicate poverty sensitize these citizens on the importance of having a manageable size of family.

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