Rapid Population Growth

RAPID POPULATION GROWTH
Population growth at times is beneficial, but when population growth becomes “Rapid” there is a great chance that the counter-productive level has been reached
What is Rapid Growth?
Rapid growth is a quick increase in population. It is also the result of the difference between the rate of birth and the rate of death.
What Causes rapid population growth?
· Poverty and lower living conditions
· Birth control is prohibited
· Older populations living longer while birth rates do not decline
· Lack of population education and awareness
· Early marriage
What are the Effects of Rapid Population Growth?
* overpopulation * insufficient land to produce crops
* lack of land * hunger and starvation
* pollution * malnutrition
*quality of housing decrease * disease such as typhoid and cholera
* contaminated water supply *poor waste management
Population Policies and Programs
I. Population Programs – are planned activities to realize t5he goals expressed in the population of the country.
II. Population Policies – are set of guidelines and goals for changing the rate of population growth.


POPULATION PROGRAMS
A. Population Commission – agencies mandated by the national government to coordinate and provide the needed policy and information and advocate support for the activities of PPMP (Philippine Population Management Program). It provides over-all direction and manages the funds for the central operation of the program. Pop Com also formulated the “Comprehensive Philippine Population Management Program which promotes balance among population, resources and environment as the key elements for attaining the welfare of all Filipino Families through sustainable development.
2 Main Strategies of Pop Com
a. Pop Education Program of the Dep Ed – for youth awareness
b. Integration of population education concepts in the teaching units for elementary and secondary levels by the Nureau of Public Schools.
c. Population Education Center – prepares and acquaints teachers and students with current concepts and values on responsible family living.
d. Philippine Weslesyan College in Cabanatuan City – program consist of curriculum development for elementary, secondary and college levels.
e. Different Organizations:
- Social Communication Center
- Family Planning Organizations of the Philippine (FPOP)
- Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)
- Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)
- Responsible Parenthood Council (RPC)
- Department of Agriculture (DA)
- National Food Authority (NFA)
- Department of Education
- Dep of Environment & Natural Resources (DENR)
- Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA)
- Forest Management Bureau (FBM)
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
- Department of Finance
- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FRNI)
- Department of Health (DOH)
- Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
- Department of Tourism (DOT)
- Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
- National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
- National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB)
- National Statistics Office (NSO)
- Bureau of Customs (BOC)
- Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
- Department of Sience and Technology (DOST)
- Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
- Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
- University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI)
B. PPMP (Philippine Population Management Programs)
C. PRE (Population Resources and Environment) – analyzes the way people manages and use available resources.
FAMILY PLANNING
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS
1. Provision of Physical Care and Love
2. Inculcating Discipline
3. Developing Social Competence
4. Education
5. Citizenship Training
6. Teaching the Wise Use of Money
7. Financial Aspect of Responsibility
8. Spiritual Formation
RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
1. Children have the right to be born well once they are conceived.
2. Children have the right to a wholesome family life.
3. Children have the right to develop into a happy, useful, and active member of society.
4. Children have the right to a healthy and vigorous life.
5. Children have the right to enrich and strengthen their character through a moral and upright life.
6. Children have the right to education and skills development
7. Children have the right to safe and wholesome recreation and activities.
8. Children have the right to be protected from anything that will affect negatively his development and growth.
9. Children have right to live in an environment that will affect positively their growth and development.
10. Children have the right to the care, assistance, and protection of the State.
11. Children have the right to an efficient and honest government.
12. Children have the right to grow up as a free and responsible individual
The Different Natural Family Planning Methods
A. Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) This method takes advantage of the normal physiologic response of the woman’s body to a suckling infant which is to inhibit ovulation. It makes use of “full or almost full” breastfeeding immediately after giving birth until six (6) months after delivery provided the mother has no menses yet. For LAM to be effective, three requirements should be present: • The baby is 6 months or less • The mother’s monthly period has not returned • The baby is fully breastfed. LAM is up to six months only; the couple therefore is advised to learn another natural method before the six months end or when the first menstruation after childbirth occurs.
B. Cervical Mucus Method (CMM) This method includes (Billings Ovulation Method, Mercedes Wilson Method and Two Day Method. The method involves the daily observation by the woman of the naturally occurring changes of the cervical mucus during the Different phases of a woman’s menstrual cycle. The sensation of wetness or dryness are observed throughout the day and recorded in a learning chart. A couple using this method notes the changes in a woman’s cervical mucus using a learning chart.
To effectively practice this method, the couple, especially the woman, should do the following:
1. The woman must consciously observe the quality of her cervical mucus in what she sees and what she feels throughout the day.
2. She should observe the sensation of wetness or dryness and the appearance of the mucus outside the vagina.
3. The best time is to observe before or after urinating. Observation starts on the first day of menstruation.


4. The woman does the observation by asking “How do I feel?” and by looking at the mucus in her underwear and asking, “What do I see?”
Observations must be recorded in the evening before going to bed. This should be done at the end of the day because the most fertile sign of the day must be recorded in a learning chart as a guide for fertile and infertile days. Couples who want to use Cervical Mucus Method should seek assistance from user teachers in their neighborhood or in church-based organizations or from trained NFP providers in health centers.
C. Two-Day Method (TDM) The two-day method is a simple fertility awareness-based method of natural family planning that involves cervical secretions as indicator of fertility and the woman checking the presence of secretions every day. It is one of the Cervical Mucus methods but is given a separate treatment here because it is new and is still being mainstreamed. If a woman notices any secretion today or yesterday, she should consider herself fertile and the couple should avoid lovemaking if they do not want a pregnancy to occur. In other words, the woman is considered fertile if she noticed any secretion for two successive days. The method can be used by women with cycles of any length and has normal secretions. What is needed is the woman’s willingness to check her secretions everyday and the discipline of the couple to abstain for several consecutive days each cycle if the indications suggest that the woman is fertile.
D. Basal Body Temperature (BBT) With the use of a thermometer, a couple takes the body temperature of the woman at almost the same time each morning before she gets out of bed and notes how it changes in a learning chart. By charting the daily temperature of the woman, a couple will be able to identify the fertile and infertile days. The woman’s temperature rises 0.2 to 0.5 degrees around the time of ovulation. In this method, the couple avoids lovemaking from the first day of menstruation until the temperature has risen above her regular temperature and stayed up for three full days. After this, the couple can have their lovemaking until her next menstrual bleeding begins.
E. Sympto-thermal Method (STM)This is a combination of the observation of the cervical mucus changes, low and high temperature changes, and secondary signs and symptoms of fertility before and after ovulation. A couple notes the mucus and takes the temperature of the body at rest in a learning chart. The couple should avoid lovemaking until the rules have been applied on both the peak day and the shift in temperature. These rules are derived from the cervical mucus method and the BBT method described above.
F. Standard Days Method (SDM) The Standard Days Method is a modern scientific method of family planning based on fertility awareness. It helps a woman know her fertile days by simply counting the days of her cycle, starting with the first day of menstruation. It identifies days 8-19 of the cycle as the fertile period when pregnancy may occur if there is intercourse. Days 1-7 and the rest of the days after day 19 are identified as non-fertile days. SDM’s “fertile window” of days 8-19 has been standardized and is applicable only for women whose menstrual cycles range from 26 to 32 days. Among the 13 beads is a dark brown bead that marks the 26th day of the woman’s cycle. If the next menstruation occurs before this bead, then the woman has a cycle less than 26 days. The couple therefore cannot use the method because the woman has a short menstrual cycle. Between the last brown bead and the red bead is a small black bead. If the woman’s next menstruation fall on or beyond this bead, then the woman has a cycle longer that 32 days. In this case, because the woman has a long menstrual cycle , the couple should seek advice from a qualified NFP or SDM facilitator. The couple uses a color-coded device called the “cycle beads” to mark the fertile and infertile days of the menstrual cycle. The “cycle beads” has 32 beads representing the days in the menstrual cycle. It has one red bead that represents the first day of menstruation, followed by six brown beads that represent the days that the woman cannot get pregnant. Next to the brown beads are 12 white beads that represent the days that the woman can get pregnant and 13 brown beads that also represent the days the woman cannot get pregnant. A rubber ring that fits around the beads is used to mark the days in the cycle that are represented by the colored beads. On the first day of menstruation, the rubber ring is moved to the red bead and the date of the first day of menstruation is recorded in the SDM Card. The record can be used later when the couple could not remember whether the marker was moved of not. Every morning the marker is moved to the next bead. The marker should be moved in the same direction, from the narrow to the wide end of the bead. The marker is moved even on days that the woman has her period. On the day the next period starts again, the marker is moved again to the red bead. This means a new cycle has started.