Family Planning and Public Policy: Is the "Cultureof Poverty" the New Cop-Out ?  

Oleh:

Jaffe, Frederick S. ; Polgar, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 30 no. 02 (May 1968), page 228.

Isi artikel

The application of the culture-of-poverty concept to family planning is reviewed. Two approaches to program development are contrasted: accessibility versus cultural-motivational. Experience appears to support the accessibility approach, which seeks to create services where none exist or to remove obstacles which make services inaccessible (distance, crowding, eligibility and fee practices, scheduling, lack of information, and depersonalized delivery). Yet the cultural-motivational view dominates the thinking of many health and welfare professionals and is employed to rationalize slow progress. This anomaly is analyzed as an example of the resistance of institutions to change and in terms of its historical antecedents in upper-class biases about lower-class fertility. The implications for public policy are explored, particularly the potential use of the culture-of-poverty concept to justify selective compulsory fertility control if health and welfare agencies continue to lag in developing voluntary programs.

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