Friday, October 26, 2007

Family Quality and Family Planning

DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS FAMILIES

Family Quality

The Government will pass policies for the carrying out the growth of family value to be set forth in laws and regulations.

The enactment of policies will be going to towards the understanding of family quality characterized by family self-reliance and resilience as human resource potentials, and conserving the environment, and building human harmony in the environment in order to attain continuous development.

Family Planning

In order to realize the development of happy and prosperous families, the Government must pass regulations on efforts to carry out family planning.

The policies must be carried out by efforts to better the integration and participation of society, family guidance and birth control in regard to religious values, harmony, proportion, and balance between the size of the population and what the environment can support and house, conditions of socio-economic and socio-cultural development in addition to systems of values adhered to by society.

The policies will be linked to the willpower of the ideal number of children, the spacing of childbirth, the ideal marriage age, and the ideal age for delivery.

Birth control should be carried out by methods which are efficient and effective and which can be accepted by husband and wife couples in agreement with their choice.

Birth control methods should be carried out by methods which can be accounted for with regards to health, ethics, and the religion followed by the persons concerned.

Every husband and wife as a couple can make their own choice in planning and regulate the number of children and the spacing of childbirth based on alertness and responsibility to the present generation and to future generations.

The husband and wife have equal rights and duties in addition to equal status in deciding the method of birth control.

The use of birth control devices, drugs and methods which give rise to a risk to health shall be carried out under guidance and or by competent health personnel.

The actions for uses must be carried out according to professional health standards in line with prevailing laws and regulations.

The showing and or demonstration of contraceptive devices, drugs and methods can only be done by skilled personnel in the field of planning and in the proper place and in the proper way.

The Government must control the supply and or distribution of contraceptive devices and drugs based on a balance between needs, supply, and reasonable distribution of services.

Research and development of the technology of contraceptive devices, drugs and methods must be carried out by the Government and or society based on the provisions of prevailing laws and regulations.

In order to instill the norm of the small, happy and prosperous family, the Government must carry out efforts to improve public information, guidance and or services regarding birth control and the provision of facilities and basic organization required for birth control services; counseling on determination of the ideal marriage age and delivery age.

http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/database/poplaws/law_indo/chap6.htm

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