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The Couple to Couple League was founded in 1971 by John and Sheila Kippley, and lay Catholics, with the help of Dr. Konald Prem. The League was the first organization to teach a symptoms-based method of fertility awareness that relied on all three primary fertility signs: temperature, mucus, and cervical position. [1]
The objective of family planning in the United States is to enable individuals to determine the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which that target may be achieved. Doing so can bring many benefits including improved maternal health, the prevention of the spread of STDs , and decreased infant and child mortality rates.
In the late 1900s, the importance of family planning services captured the attention of healthcare professionals and policy makers. The recognition that unintentional pregnancies had adverse health outcomes for mothers and increased costs of maternal and infant care coupled with ethical considerations led to the passage of Title X in 1970 and the creation of federal- and state-funded family ...
Texas Family Magazine is a bi-monthly American magazine published in Sugar Land, Texas. [1] It is a self-styled "parenting handbook" with content focused on parenting, health, education and fashion. Some of the notable past covers of Texas Family have included Debbie and Roger Clemens , Joel and Victoria Osteen , Dana Vollmer , Ricardo Chavira ...
While in 1971 the federal budget for Family Planning was only six million dollars, by 1972 it was almost 62 million. [3] In 1972, Congress passed a bill requiring a state's Medicaid program to cover family planning services for low income families. [9] Under this provision, the federal government covers 90% of the states' expenditures. [10]
A parenting plan is a child custody plan that is negotiated by parents, and which may be included in a marital separation agreement or final decree of divorce. [1] [2] Especially when a separation is acrimonious to begin with, specific agreements about who will discharge these responsibilities and when and how they are to be discharged can reduce the need for litigation.
In the 1960s, Abarca focused on family planning services, securing a $300,000 grant for Corpus Christi, the first grant of its kind in the United States. The next year, in 1965, she accepted the position of executive director for the South Texas Planned Parenthood Center. Her interests in birth control and family planning were aimed at women ...
Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is the result of the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning where more than 20 governments made commitments to address the policy, financing, delivery, and socio-cultural barriers to women accessing contraception formation and services.