Written by Scott Radloff, Director of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health on June 18, 2011
As Father’s Day approaches I look back to when my wife and I first decided to have children. We married fairly late, both in our early 30s, so we planned to have our first child just a couple years after we married. It was an exciting time; much thought went into planning our family. We are now proud parents of two healthy and happy girls. It’s normal in the U.S. for both men and women to play an active role in planning their families; however, in much of the developing world that is not the case.
Involving men in international family planning programs is an uphill battle. There is a lack of information among men on the importance of delaying first birth, of spacing births, and of avoiding high parity births for the health of the woman and the child. Family planning saves lives and improves maternal and child health. In the developing world, an estimated 90 percent of infants whose mothers die after childbirth will die by their first birthday.
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