- Headline: "Expanding Efforts for Family Planning"
- Subheading: Social Workers' Involvement Broadens the Scope of Family Planning
- Source: Dong-A Ilbo
- Date of Publication: June 6, 1974
- Summary:
The Planned Parenthood Federation of Korea has been actively expanding its promotional efforts this year to emphasize the importance of family planning across different social groups and professions. In April and May, the organization hosted family planning seminars for professionals such as female doctors, midwives, and hairdressers. On June 5, another seminar titled "Family Planning and Social Work" focused on key topics, including sex education, the prevention of unwed motherhood, and family welfare. At the seminar, Sang-nak Ha from the Department of Social Work at Seoul National University (now the Department of Social Welfare) emphasized the importance of social workers taking an active role in family planning programs.
He pointed out that efforts such as preventing unwed motherhood, placing children in foster care, and promoting adoption align closely with the objectives of family planning. However, he identified two significant challenges: the lack of collaboration between family planning initiatives and social work, and the medical sector’s failure to recognize the specialized skills of social workers. Ha argued that family planning encompasses not only sexual matters but also broader issues related to human life, requiring the active involvement of social workers in these efforts. Social welfare in the 1970s viewed the prevention of unwed motherhood and the adoption of children born to unwed mothers as aligned with the shared objectives of birth control and family planning initiatives. This article highlights how social welfare programs actively engaged with the nationwide family planning campaigns of the time.
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