Abstract

Demographic characteristics of varying societies vary from area to area depending on the ecological patterns of different societies. The commencement, receipt, and popularization of the movement of birth control were not identical all across the world. The idea of birth control reflects one of the most interesting episodes in the history of modern ideas. It is widely known as all the methods used to regulate or prevent the birth of children. It is deliberate prevention or delaying of births by various artificial means. Family Planning or Planned Parenthood is the term generally used to refer more broadly to policies, programs, and services designed to assist people in practicing birth control. The present study claims that all apparently religious doctrines against family planning are actually the expression of their local worldview. Accordingly, the people consider their opposition to the idea of family planning justified in Islam, though in reality, they derive their feelings from their socio-economic considerations.

Authors

1-Sajid Mahmood Aawan
Research Fellow,National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research (NIHCR),Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2-Syed Ali Shah
Assistant Professor, Department of Pakistan Studies, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.

3-Syed Rashid Ali
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan.

Keywords

Economic, Socio-economic, Religion, Birth Control, Family Planning, Pakistan,.

DOI Number

10.31703/ger.2018(III-I).05

Page Nos

39-49

Volume

III

Issue

I