On embracing the childbirth spacing

With  a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. Its population is multiplying at a startling rate. However, this fact has not changed the narrative about child spacing and the chain of issues associated with it in the country.  Human procreation is rising astronomically in Nigeria, compounding the […]

With  a population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. Its population is multiplying at a startling rate. However, this fact has not changed the narrative about child spacing and the chain of issues associated with it in the country. 

Human procreation is rising astronomically in Nigeria, compounding the challenges encountered by policy planners to anticipate and plan accurately about sustainable development. 

Nigerians seem persistently adamant about all advice to space childbearing, albeit according to their religious or any other cultural injunctions, for its numerous advantages to the parents, their immediate communities and the country as a whole.  

Childbirth spacing will help to give a timely health impact for the women and adequate parental control of children, especially at this time of hardship and economic downfall.  

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The husbands should consider the health matters of the women, as it was discovered that rampant childbirth can affect proper blood circulation in women, disfigure their structures and weaken them, reducing their energy to give birth directly from the womb.  

Uncontrolled childbirth increases the hardship of managing a family.  

It is particularly difficult for the man to handle matters relating to the education of his children and his wife’s needs. In this situation, household problems become compounded and management of family issues becomes increasingly difficult.  

The childbirth spacing will, undoubtedly, help to maintain the growing population of Nigeria and facilitate socioeconomic development.  

A recent report from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that about 133 million Nigerians have drowned in poverty over lack of proper education, malnourishment, lack of industrial development and inadequate investment to raise the skill acquisition programme.  

Without a doubt, the excessive population is the main background for all those challenges that encircled the country. With Nigerians embracing childbirth spacing, the children will have access to adequate healthcare, cutting family expenses to a very affordable level. 

If Nigerians adopt child spacing for about two to three years, it will enhance the effective livelihood of the people. 

Child spacing guarantees proper education for the children. Proper education kills insecurity and restores peace and security which guarantees and accelerates economic growth and prosperity.  

Without these, Nigeria would continue to suffer a multitude of setbacks. 

Maryam Adamu, Department of Mass Communication, Borno State University