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Title: | Family Planning: A Human Right for Women |
Author: | Ogbuagu, Stella C. |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 45-56 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | family planning women Health and Nutrition Women's Issues Family Planning and Contraception Cultural Roles Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486768 |
Abstract: | This paper demonstrates that the position of women in Nigerian society greatly inhibits their capacity for exercising the right to family planning. A small-scale study was carried out in order to examine women's views on and their use of family planning. The research was conducted in the Qua settlement in Odukpani local government area of Cross River State of Nigeria. The target population consisted of women of childbearing age (15-49 years). The results reveal that, although an overwhelming majority (83.3 percent) of the 164 respondents approved of couples using family planning, only 13 percent of this majority admitted having ever used any form of contraceptive. The author argues that the fact that only a small portion of the research sample has ever used any method of family planning is consistent with their low social status, high fertility, low level of education, poor income and low status occupation. State policies should improve this situation. Bibliogr., sum. in French. |