Current situations and solutions to improve the quality of family planning activities in catholic areas -Thai Binh province

ABSTRACT

About 40.3% catholic couples at reproductive age intended to have more than 2 children. The big factors that effected on the size of catholic families were age, education level, and birth interval. The catholic women got married earlier than non-catholic women did and the interval between the first 2 children less than 5 year was quite high (72.8%). Married catholic women went to have abortion less frequent than non-catholic women did and they usually finished their pregnancies by deliveries. The population coordinators and religious leaders participated actively in population and family planning activities and had been accepted by catholics. It was needed to have policies support for population and family planning activities in catholic community.