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Influence Of Mass Media Awareness To Promotion Of Family Planning Practices
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
With a
growing population tipping towards 200 million people in 2015, experts
are beginning to express fears about the capacity of Nigeria in managing
such population amid poverty and burden of healthcare. This has
prompted the federal government to subtly suggest birth control for its
citizen with serious backlash and dichotomy between proponents and
opponents. In the quest to stem the tide of unbridled population growth,
the government of the federal republic of Nigeria in 2002 came out with
a population policy paper on family planning and fertility regulation.
According
to the policy paper, the value of family planning and the child spacing
on the stability and wellbeing of family shall be promoted and family
service shall be incorporated in maternal and child health care. This is
to help reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality as well as
reduce rapid population growth in the shortest possible time in order to
ensure sustainable development which can be achieved only by reducing
population growth to bring it to per with the available national
resources.
This will invariably lead to the attainment of good
quality life and high standard of living in the country. It is perhaps
because of the foregoing world leader in 1974 accepted family planning
as a human right of individuals and couples. Article 14(F) of the World
Population Plan of Action states that: “all couples and individuals have
the basic right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing
of their children and to have the information, education and means to
do so; the responsibility of couples and individuals in the exercise of
the right takes into account the needs of their living and future
children, and their responsibility towards the communityâ€.
Though
there is a growing interest with the intense efforts of the government
to popularize the use of modern family planning methods by integrating
it unto maternal and child health in Nigeria, it seems many people still
do not apply planning methods.
Is population Nigeria’s biggest
problem? Whatever answer that is likely to come out; fears are being
expressed concerning Nigeria’s rising population. From a little number
of 55 million people in the 1950s, before independence, Nigeria’s
population grew astronomically to about 80 million in the 1990s. Today,
that figure is pecked around 167 million people.
If the nation’s
population is left to grow uncontrolled, the national resources will
sooner or later be outstripped by increasing demand of the growing
population. Aside the political undertone of population, a high
population carries with it many burdens that may even over power the
state in handling. An increased population for Nigeria will also over
stretch services and infrastructure.
In all the challenges that come
with high population density, poor healthcare remains the biggest
headache. In the long run, it may lead to total collapsed of the social
system. These are the fears being expressed by the government, prompting
government officials to conceive the idea of family planning.
Observers believed that high population will ever remain an impediment
to her development until something is done about it. In the 1990s, the
Ibrahim Babangida military government even attempted compulsory family
planning for Nigerians. A policy that was greeted by strong opposition
and critisms.
Though there is a growing interest with the intense
efforts of the government to popularize the use of modern family
planning method by integrating it into maternal and child health in
Nigeria, it seems many people still do not apply family planning
methods. This is essence brings to mind the role mass media will play to
make effective the issue of family planning in a country like Nigeria
that the literacy level is not at optimal.
The influence and
pervasiveness of the mass media can be found everywhere around us today,
and they are everywhere respected. We must search long and hard to find
a Nigerian who will say that information provided by the media is not
generally good for him or her in one way or another. We can say with
large measure of certainty that one of the primary assumptions held by
most Nigerians is that the media and the information derived from them
have influenced our thought, attitudes and behaviors.
Thus, the
mass media touch nearly every one of us every day, socially and
culturally. The mass media can affect the way we think about issues
around us and they can influence what we think about and the way we eat,
talk, work, study and relax. This is the impact of mass media on the
society.
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