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Comment on the influence of social and cultural factors on family planning in India.

  • UPSC 2009, 1990
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The premise of India's family planning programme was that fertility is an individual decision, to be changed by informing a couple and supplying a method. Sociology has shown that premise to be wrong. Fertility is a household decision, taken within a structure of caste, kinship and property, and this is why the programme long underperformed…

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  • The household, not the couple, is the decision-making unit
  • The economic rationality of large families
  • Son preference and the ritual necessity of a son
  • Education, religion and community
  • The programme's own cultural legacy
  • Conclusion

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