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The Politics of Pregnancy. from ‘Population Control’ to Women in Control
Introduction: Pregnant teenagers and falling fertility
‘Population bomb’? Policy in other countries
The perils of China’s one-child policy
Planning other people’s families: International agencies at work
Official programmes and private choices under Apartheid
International consensus and an anomaly
Sub-Saharan Africa lagging behind
No ‘demographic dividend’ for South Africa?
Enduring challenges
A culture of unprofessionalism
Free contraceptives, yet sex stays ‘unsafe’
Some cause for hope
Notes
About the book
About the author
Tafelberg Short books
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Rhoda Kadalie and Julia Pollak
The Apartheid government’s family planning policies are partly responsible. But South Africa’s demographic ‘exceptionalism’ is also largely an accident of history – a by-product of the devastation Apartheid wrought on black and coloured families before 1994 and the impact of HIV/Aids on families since then. Sadly, this cannot accurately be accredited to the success of our reproductive health programmes and services, or to the empowerment of women, where we continue to fall short.
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Despite all the attention China has received for the grave human rights violations associated with the policy, Chinese officials are adamant that China still has too many people, and that the policy continues to be necessary. They credit it with averting some 400 million births. But that is a wild exaggeration. As in most of the rest of the world, fertility was declining before the programme was introduced, and it would have continued to decline in response to economic growth and the increased availability of contraception.
China’s policy has also had many tragic unintended consequences. A typical Chinese family today consists of four grandparents, two parents and one child. As a result, China is now facing a demographic and economic disaster – an aging population, a rising dependency ratio, and a shrinking workforce.
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