Title: Public Social Policy and Population Problems in the United States
Abstract: Although the birthrate has dropped sharply in the United States over the past five years, the danger of further rapid population growth remains because of the extremely large youth population in their prime reproductive years. At present, the nation's population policy is mostly limited to partial federal support for family-planning programs for poor people. This approach is too narrow. Ideally, population policy should be tied to a larger social and economic policy primarily addressed to improving the overall quality of life. The report of the President's Commission on Population Growth and the American Future makes recommendations that move in this direction; further movement is desirable. Policy planning and implementation should be addressed both to improving the operation of population-planning programs and to minimizing their possibly adverse effects. This suggests policies that take into account the complex of biological, social, psychological, political, and economic factors that affect human reproductive behavior and are affected by interventions aimed at changing it.
Publication Year: 1973
Publication Date: 1973-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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