- Headline: "Love Your Country - Practice Birth Control"
- Subheading: Korean Federation of Housewives Clubs Unveils 1976 Family Planning Goals
- Source: Maeil Business Newspaper
- Date of Publication: January 19, 1976
- Summary:
The Korean Federation of Housewives Clubs (President Cheolgyeong Lee) has declared 1976 as the "Year of Loving Your Country Through Birth Control." This follows their previous campaigns: "The Year of No Pregnancies" (1974) and "The Year for More Male Contraception" (1975). The Federation has actively promoted family planning, even securing funding from the Asia Foundation, a first for a civilian group.
For 1976, in addition to counseling for unwed mothers, the Federation plans to expand initiatives to suburban areas: 1) Establishing family planning counseling centers in selected local dong-level offices of vulnerable districts and distributing contraceptives. 2) Stocking condoms alongside cigarettes at select tobacco shops for easy access. 3) Collaborating with Korea Yakult to have door-to-door salespersons deliver condoms with Yakult drinks for just 10 won per pack. The article not only illustrates the intensity and scope of family planning initiatives in South Korea during the 1970s but also reveals how the prevention of unwed motherhood and the overseas adoption of children born to unwed mothers were intricately linked to broader birth control and population control efforts.
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