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Reproductive and Child Healthcare (RCH) programmes are currently in operation. One of the major tasks of these programmes is to create awareness amongst people about the wide range of reproduction related aspects. As this is important and essential for building a reproductively healthy society.
- “Providing sex education in schools in one of the ways to meet this goal.” Give four points in support of your opinion regarding this statement.
- List any two ‘indicators’ that indicate a reproductively healthy society.
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Solution
- Providing sex education is one of the best ways to create a reproductively healthy society. Sex education helps in achieving this goal by
- Providing proper knowledge to curious adolescents and preventing them from being misguided.
- Creating awareness about sexually transmitted diseases and ways to prevent them.
- Teaching methods of family planning and taking care of a female during pregnancy.
- Teaching about topics such as infertility and different methods of curing the same.
- Two indicators of a reproductively healthy society are as follows:
- In a reproductively healthy society, there is no emphasis on the selection of a particular sex. Hence, the ratio of male and female individuals is maintained.
- The individuals in the pre-reproductive and reproductive stages should outnumber the individuals in the post-reproductive stage.
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