Chijioke Iremeka Presently, biting economic hardship in the country is forcing housewives to embrace birth control measures to avoid the financial strain an additional mouth would exert on lean, overburdened family income, reports CHIJIOKE IREMEKA . Family planning professionals have noted that economic hardship plaguing the country is pushing many partners into adopting compulsory birth control measures to avoid further financial strains on their already overburdened pockets. They also said the rising cost of living has resulted in multiple abortions among married couples, as they seek to limit the size of their families to lessen expenditures and strains.
Experts and couples told our correspondent that the persistent economic hardship had brought with it substantial stress, tension, and crisis, with many marriages breaking down irretrievably. To counteract this trend, couples, PUNCH Healthwise learnt, are striving to maintain a manageable family size and alleviate financial strain through the use of family planning methods, with some women even being forced to abort their pregnancies. Family planning, according to the World Health Organisation, allows people to attain their desired number of children, and to determine the spacing of pregnancies through the use of contraceptives.
According to the Society for Family Health, there has been a notable increase in the abortion rate among married women, stating that many of them decide to terminate pregnancies without informing th.
