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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
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ILOILO – The Provincial Population Office (PPO) is urging Ilonggos to have not more than two children in a family.
The PPO has a new logo showing a happy family composed of the parents and their two children. PPO’s former logo featured a family with three children.
PPO head Ramon Yee said the new logo aims to encourage couples to limit the number of their children to two.
“In consonance to the objective of the government to attain the fertility rate of two children per family, we changed our logo to a family with only two children,” he explained.
As to the latest monitoring, Yee said the average family size of the Ilonggos is 4.85 (or every family has two to three children).
Families with fewer children tend to be socioeconomically stable while families with many children have high poverty incidence, he pointed out.
Also, the latest survey of the PPO showed that poverty incidence of the province was about 22 to 24 percent.
Meanwhile, during the recent congress of the Barangay Service Point Officers in the province, Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. encouraged the BSPOs to help educate their fellow Ilonggos on child-bearing control.
Many Filipinos are poor because “we do not have control in population,” said Defensor.
“Help your fellow Ilonggos to have control in bearing children so that many of us will not experience hunger,” he said.
He lauded the BSPOs for their sense of volunteerism, saying their role was always “appreciated and will forever be treasured.” (PNA)
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