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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Sta. Mesa, Manila
COLLEGE OF ACCOUNTANCY

NARRATIVE REPORT
Family Planning Decision Among Low-Income Mothers With Five Children Above: Economic, Social Networks Or Social Values?

Name: ADEL, Divine Grace ADORZA, Camille MAGALO, Kizia RAFAEL, Myda
Year & Course: 1st Year BS Accountancy
Subject: Sociology, Culture and Family Planning
Professor: Mr. Floramante Howard Sir John Don King T. Ponce III

Philippines is considered as third-world or economically under-developed country, experts said that one of the factors affecting is the population. Philippines is one of the most populated country in the world, and one of the reason of this is the lack of family planning. In family planning we could lessen the increasing population of our country but there are several factors why Filipino couples are not using family planning anymore.
It is very alarming for today’s current issue in the Philippines about the newly approved law in the Philippines known as House Bill 4244 or we called as reproductive Health Law for today. Many congressmen led by Rep. Edcel Lagman were the one who proposed it though the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) were strictly against to this law.
What is the reproductive Health Law? It is a law that contains provisions aimed to control the continuous growth of the population that said to be the cause of poverty. As for all we know, the projected population for 2013 is to be 98 million. The objective of this law is to legalize the selling of artificial contraceptives to the market and early teaching of sex education starting from grade 5 up to 4th year of high school.
Some bad effects of this law are having complications from the person who is using contraceptives. One of the serious problems of this is the cancer. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the contraceptives like pills triggers the causing a

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