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Lower your birth rate, Kenyan families urged
Children in a nursery at a maternity hospital. Kenyan women are giving birth to an average of five children, creating a population boom that has distorted growth projections, according to a recent report. Photo/AGENCIES
Posted Saturday, August 29 2009 at 18:47
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- Five children per woman is too much for the country to bear, they advise
Contraceptive use among currently married urban women stands at 48 per cent of the population, which is significantly higher than the current 37 per cent of rural women who used contraception. But the poor, the report says, have been the hardest hit by donor withdrawal from the family planning sector.
“Although the report shows low contraceptive use among all age groups, those most affected are urban teenagers in Nairobi, who recorded substantial increases in pregnancy rates between 1998 and 2003,” Mr Odhiambo said.
More than half of all teenage girls in Nairobi with no formal education are pregnant at any given time.
Data from FHOK shows that 57 per cent of women seeking abortions are from urban areas.
“We need to control child-bearing. If population continues to grow at this rate, we will find ourselves in a crisis,” he said. a crisis,” said Barasa of IPAR.
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Submitted by BleedingLovePosted August 30, 2009 04:27 AM
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Submitted by bobcat
More than 50% of illiterate teenagers r pregnant at any given time? we are mad I swear
Posted August 30, 2009 02:42 AM -
Submitted by jmapesa
Common sense tells us that population growth is function of many factors, and if "Kenyan women"-assuming the men are not involved-are making more babies then to me that is a good thing.I say this because of a simple and obvious principle-there is safety in numbers. Ideas come from people, the more people the more ideas. The more the ideas the more we prosper-what are you guys afraid of-is it economic growth. By the way economic growth drives population growth-it is a vicious circle.
Posted August 29, 2009 10:33 PM
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Communist Propaganda ! The Lord says reproduce and fill the Earth. Do not worry about this inadequate resources talk either , God has a plan for us all.