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What is "family planning"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
family planning
noun
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▪ Ask your doctor or at the family planning clinic.
▪ Despite significant advances in family planning, the report said, birth control had become a matter of global survival.
▪ Drives to convince women to take up family planning use the mass media to the full.
▪ Educated women have fewer unwanted babies; they are more likely to use family planning methods.
▪ I did make an appointment at the local family planning clinic.
▪ If you would like advice on contraception, talk to your doctor or local family planning clinic.
▪ So, make an appointment at your family planning clinic or go and talk to your college doctor.
▪ The services are available from hospitals, clinics and family doctors who have agreed to provide family planning advice.
Wiktionary
family planning

n. birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples

WordNet
family planning

n. limiting the number of children born [syn: birth control, birth prevention]

Wikipedia
Family planning

Family planning refers to the factors that may be considered by a couple in a committed relationship and each individual involved in deciding if and when to have children. Though rarely articulated, family planning may involve consideration of the number of children a couple wish to have as well as the age at which they wish to have them. These matters are obviously influenced by external factors such as marital situation, career considerations, financial position, any disabilities that may affect their ability to have children and raise them, besides many other considerations. If sexually active, family planning may involve the use of contraception and other techniques to control the timing of reproduction. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and management, and infertility management.

Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym or euphemism for the use of contraception. However, it often involves methods and practices in addition to contraception. It is most usually applied to a female- male couple who wish to limit the number of children they have and/or to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children). Family planning may encompass sterilization, as well as abortion.

Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved".