ABSTRACT
In the present century a number of European and Asiatic countries have stressed the need for large and rapidly growing populations both as an element of national power and, sometimes, as a symbol of national virility. Several nations developed family-allowance payments that subsidized additional numbers of children, and public extolling of large families frequently accompanied the economic benefits. By 1960 each of India's fifteen states had family-planning boards that advised the departments of health on family-planning matters. A central family-planning board has the same function at the national level and a post of director of family planning has been created within the health ministry. The recent report of the Director of Family Planning in India, emphasizing outlets, and the volunteer system employed in Puerto Rico's private association show that a non-clinical distribution system can be highly effective in rural areas.
