Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Factors that may influenc
Combined oral contraceptives. Introduced in 1960, "the Pill" has played an instrumental role in family planning for decades.
A community health worker explains to a woman in Madagascar different methods for family planning.
Global maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births (2010)
Placard showing negative effects of lack of family planning and having too many children and infants (Ethiopia)
The one-child policy was a controversial population planning initiative in Mainland China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a si
Family planning
…Forced sterilization has occurred in recent years in Eastern Europe (against Roma women), and in Peru (during the 1990s against indigenous women). China's one-child policy was intended to limit the rise in population numbers, but in some situations and periods involved coercion, like forced abortion and sterilisation…
A propaganda painting in Guangdong promotes the idea of a nuclear family with a single child. The text reads "Planned child birth is everyone's responsibility."
Family planning billboard in Chengdu.
The Danshan, Sichuan Province Nongchang Village people Public Affairs Bulletin Board in September 2005 noted that RMB 25,000 in social compensation fees were owed in 2005. Thus far 11,500 RMB had been collected, so another 13,500 RMB had to be collected.
Propaganda slogan on a building at Yangxin County, Hubei, reading "an IUD after the first child, tubal ligation after the second"