Question

This is for Primary Care of Women's Health class. What is the political, social, and sociocultural impact of birth control?

Answer 1

Birth control is common in the modern society. This has been a trend for a new couple to be pre planned to begin a complete family life.It has certain impacts on the grounds of politics,Soviet and on the sociocultural aspect of a women and her family.

The impact of it on politically reflected by making accessible and affordable for all to get the birth control method.This was done in order to make an adequate birth space,reduce the mortality ,abortion rate and finally as a population control way in the most developed country to control the innumerable population growth.

In society the women has been given the liberty and decisions to make on becoming pregnant or not and form a family in the society.The women entered into the society actively and do their work as per their wish and individuality. This reduced the rate of housebond women who once were allowed to rear only their children and look after their family and not involve in the activities they wish or desire to become.This has a drawback of increasing certain behaviours of increased intimate contacts between individual before legally getting married and breaking up later.This can affect a women's psychological health to an extent.

The immigrants always faced some sort of sociocultural impact.They at times were impacted that it is against their culture and believes,not practicable in their culture or often they followed a different form of birth control ways.It was even against their moral and ethical principles to use the modern birth control method.The larger family size in certain culture concised themselves to be a smaller family and imprive their socioeconomic status and overall health and quality of life.