Population Crisis: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - Birth control |
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agencies American American Hospital Association areas Assistant Secretary Association birth control birth rate Calif Center Child Health Children's Bureau City clinics Committee Contractor costs countries couples DHEW effective effort ERNEST GRUENING Estimated number family planning programs family planning services Federal fertility control Fiscal year 1967 funds Government grants Harkavy health department hospitals increase infant care projects intrauterine devices legal abortions maternal and infant ment methods metropolitan statistical area non-poor number of children Oettinger oral contraceptives patients Peace Corps percent Planned Parenthood poor and near-poor population growth population problems poverty PPWP affiliates PPWP summer 1967 pregnancy questionnaire to affiliates regional rhythm method SCHEUER Senator GRUENING Senator TYDINGS served SMSA social staff Standard metropolitan statement sterilization subcommittee subsidized family planning summer 1967 questionnaire tion U.S. Census Bureau University Washington Welfare
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Page 68 - Title to all property furnished by the Government shall remain in the Government. Title to all property purchased by the Contractor, for the cost of which the Contractor is entitled to be reimbursed as a direct item of cost under this contract, shall pass to and vest in the Government upon delivery of such property by the vendor.
Page 3 - I will seek new ways to use our knowledge to help deal with the explosion in world population and the growing scarcity in world resources.
Page 252 - This growth, it is then stated, must be curbed— by pursuing a vigorous family-planning program. That family planning can solve the problem of population growth seems to be taken as selfevident. For instance, the much-heralded statement by 12 heads of state, issued by Secretary-General U Thant on 10 December 1966 (a statement initiated by John D. Rockefeller III, Chairman of the Board of the Population Council), devotes half its space to discussing the harmfulness of population growth and the other...
Page 34 - Congress declares that fulfillment of our national purpose depends on promoting and assuring the highest level of health attainable for every person, in an environment which contributes positively to healthful individual and family living...
Page 71 - The United States of America (hereinafter called the Government), represented by the. Contracting Officer executing this contract, and the individual, partnership, joint venture, or corporation named above (hereinafter called the Contractor), mutually agree to perform this contract in strict accordance with the General Provisions (Standard Form 23-A).
Page 253 - control"? Who is to control whom? Precisely what population size, or what rate of population growth, is to be achieved? Do the policies aim to produce a growth rate that is nil, one that is very slight, or one that is like that of the industrial nations? Unless such questions are dealt with and clarified, it is impossible to evaluate current population policies. The actual programs seem to be aiming simply to achieve a reduction in the birth rate. Success is therefore interpreted as the accomplishment...
Page 263 - Individuals who have not married by the time they are in their late twenties often do not marry at all. For these reasons, for the world as a whole, the average age at marriage for women is negatively associated with the birth rate: a rising age at marriage is a frequent cause of declining fertility during the middle phase of the demographic transition; and, in the late phase, the "baby boom" is usually associated with a return to younger marriages.
Page 181 - Robert L. Heuser. Chief. Natality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics. National Center for Health Statistics, personal communication.
Page 265 - It follows that, in countries where contraception is used, a realistic proposal for a government policy of lowering the birth rate reads like a catalogue of horrors: squeeze consumers through taxation and inflation; make housing very scarce by limiting construction; force wives and mothers to work outside the home to offset the inadequacy of male wages, yet provide few child-care facilities...
Page 262 - Salvador (350,000 inhabitants) a 1964 survey45 showed the number desired by women of reproductive age to be 3.9, and in seven other capital cities of Latin America the number ranged from 2.7 to 4.2. If women in the cities of underdeveloped countries used birth-control measures with 100-percent efficiency, they still would have enough babies to expand city populations senselessly, quite apart from the added contribution of rural-urban migration. In many of the cities the difference between actual...