Family planning
Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans.
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1830s in Western fashion
1830s fashion in European and European-influenced clothing is characterized by an emphasis on breadth, initially at the shoulder and later in the hips, in contrast to the narrower silhouettes that had predominated between 1800-1820.
Friday 2 August 2013
Thursday 25 July 2013
A Sad Love Story
A Sad Love Story
A Girlfriend gave a challenge to her Boyfriend
to live a day without her. No communication at all
and said if he passed it, She will love him forever.
The boyfriend agreed and then He never texted nor called
his girlfriend for the whole day without knowing, his
girlfriend has only 24 hours left because she was
dying because of cancer. After a day, He excitedly went
to this girlfriend, "I did it baby" but tears fell as
he saw his girlfriend lying in a confined with a note
"you did it baby... now please do it Everyday... I Love you"
Sunday 21 July 2013
Birth control
Birth control
Birth
control, also known as contraception
and fertility control, are methods
or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Planning, provision and use of birth
control is called family planning. Safe sex, such as the use of male or female
condoms, can also help prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections.Contraceptive
use in developing countries has decreased the number of maternal deaths by 40%
(about 270,000 deaths prevented in 2008) and could prevent 70% if the full
demand for birth control were met. By lengthening the time between pregnancies,
birth control can improve adult women's delivery outcomes and the survival of
their children. In the developing world women's earnings, assets, body mass
index, and their children's schooling and health all improve with greater
access to contraception.
The most effective methods of birth control are sterilization
by means of vasectomy in males and tubal ligation in females, intrauterine
devices (IUDs) and implantable contraceptives. This is followed by a number of
hormonal contraceptives including oral pills, patches, vaginal rings, and
injections. Less effective methods include: barriers such as condoms,
diaphragms and contraceptive sponge and fertility awareness methods. The least
effective methods are spermicides and withdrawal by the male before
ejaculation. Sterilization, while highly effective, is not usually reversible;
all other methods are reversible, most immediately upon stopping them. Condoms
have the additional benefit of preventing sexually transmitted infections.
Emergency contraception can prevent pregnancy in the few days after unprotected
sex. Some people regard sexual abstinence as birth control, but abstinence-only
sex education may increase teen pregnancies when offered without contraceptive
education.
Teenage pregnancies are at greater risk of poor outcomes and
comprehensive sex education and access to birth control decreases the rate of
unwanted pregnancies in this age group. While all forms of birth control may be
used by young people, long-acting reversible contraception such as implants,
IUDs, or vaginal rings are of particular benefit in reducing rates of teenage
pregnancy.After the delivery of a child a women who is not exclusively breast-feeding
may become pregnant again as early as four to six weeks. Some methods of birth
control can be started immediately follow the birth while others require a
delay of up to six months. In those who are breast feeding progestin only
methods are preferred over combined oral contraceptives. In those who have
reached menopause it is recommended that birth control be continued for one
year after the last period.
Birth control methods have been used since ancient times but
effective and safe methods only became available in the 20th century.Some
cultures deliberately limit access to contraception because they consider it to
be morally or politically undesirable.About 222 million women who want to avoid
pregnancy in developing countries are not using a modern contraception method.
Birth control increases economic growth because of fewer dependent children, more women participating in the workforce, and less consumption of scarce resources.
Birth control increases economic growth because of fewer dependent children, more women participating in the workforce, and less consumption of scarce resources.
Family planning
Family planning
Family
planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans.
Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually
transmitted infections, pre-conception
counseling and management, and
infertility management.
Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym for the use of
birth control, however, it often includes a wide variety of methods, and
practices that are not birth control. It is most usually applied to a
female-male couple who wish to limit the number of children they have and/or to
control the timing of pregnancy (also known as spacing children). Family
planning may encompass sterilization, as well as abortion.
Family planning services are defined as "educational,
comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including
minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to
select the means by which this may be achieved".
Purposes
Raising a child requires significant amounts of resources:
time, social, financial, and environmental. Planning can help assure
that resources are available. The purpose of family planning is to make sure
that any couple, man, or woman who has the desire to have a child has the
resources that are needed in order to complete this goal. With these resources
a couple, man or women can explore the options of natural birth, surrogacy,
artificial insemination, or adoption. In the other case, if the person does not
wish to have a child at the specific time, they can investigate the resources
that are needed to prevent pregnancy, such as birth control, contraceptives, or
physical protection and prevention.
Health
Waiting until the mother is at least 18 years old before
trying to have children improves maternal and child health. Also, if additional
children are desired after a child is born, it is healthier for the mother and
the child to wait at least 2 years after the previous birth before attempting
to conceive (but not more than 5 years). After a miscarriage or abortion, it is
healthier to wait at least 6 months.
When planning a family women who are over at least 30 years
of age should be aware of the risks of having a child at that age. Like older
men, older women are at higher risk of having a child with autism and Down
syndrome, the chances of having multiple births increases, which cause further
late-pregnancy risks, they have an increased chance of developing gestational
diabetes, the need for a Caesarian section is greater, older women's bodies are
not as well-suited for delivering a baby. The risk of prolonged labor is
higher. Older mothers have a higher risk of a long labor, putting the baby in
distress.
"Family planning benefits the health and well-being of
women and families throughout the world. Using contraception can help to avoid
unwanted pregnancies and space births; protect against STDs, including
HIV/AIDS; and provide other health benefits."
Modern methods
Modern methods of family planning include birth control,
assisted reproductive technology and family planning programs.
In cases were couples may not want to have children just yet
and plan with time family planning programs help a lot. Federal family planning
programs reduced childbearing among poor women by as much as 29 percent,
according to a University of Michigan study.
Adoption sometimes used to build a family. There are seven
steps that one must make towards adoption. You must decide to pursue an
adoption, apply to adopt, complete an adoption home study, get approved to
adopt, be matched with a child, receive an adoptive placement, and then legalize
the adoption.
Wednesday 17 July 2013
1830s in Western fashion
1830s in Western fashion
1830s fashion in European and
European-influenced clothing is characterized by an emphasis on breadth,
initially at the shoulder and later in the hips, in contrast to the narrower
silhouettes that had predominated between 1800-1820.
Women's
costume featured larger sleeves than were worn in any period before or since,
which were accompanied by elaborate hairstyles and large hats.
The final
months of the 1830s saw the proliferation of a revolutionary new
technology—photography. Hence, the infant industry of photographic portraiture
preserved for history a few rare, but invaluable, first images of human
beings—and therefore also preserved our earliest, live peek into "fashion in action"—and its impact
on everyday life and society as a whole.
In the
1830s, men wore dark coats, light trousers, and dark cravats for daywear. Women's sleeves reached their ultimate
width in the gigot sleeve. Here, the boys (on holiday in the mountains) wear
buff-colored belted knee-length tunics with yokes and full sleeves over
trousers. The girls wear white dresses with colored aprons. The Family of Dr.
Josef August Eltz, Austria, 1835.
General trends
Innovations
in roller printing on textiles introduced new dress fabrics. Rich colors such
as the Turkey red of the 1820s were still found, but delicate floral prints on
light backgrounds were increasingly popular. More precise printing eliminated
the need for dark outlines on printed designs, and new green dyes appeared in
patterns of grasses, ferns, and unusual florals. Combinations of florals and
stripes were fashionable.
Overall,
both men's and women's fashion showed width at the shoulder above a tiny waist.
Men's coats were padded in the shoulders and across the chest, while women's
shoulders sloped to huge sleeves.
Women's fashions
Overview
In the
1830s, fashionable women's clothing styles had distinctive large "leg of
mutton" or "gigot" sleeves, above large full conical skirts,
ideally with a narrow, low waist between (achieved through corseting). The
bulkiness of women's garments both above and below the waist was intended to
make the waist look smaller than it was — this was the final repudiation of any
last lingering aesthetic influences of the Empire silhouette of ca. 1795–1825.
Heavy stiff fabrics such as brocades came back into style, and many
18th-century gowns were brought down from attics and cut up into new garments.
The combination of sloping shoulders and sleeves which were very large over
most of the arm (but narrowing to a small cuff at the wrist) is quite
distinctive to the day dresses of the 1830s.
Pelerines,
or lace coverings draped over the shoulders, were popular (one of several
devices, along with full upper-arm sleeves and wide necklines, to emphasize the
shoulders and their width).
Gowns
The
fashionable feminine figure, with its sloping shoulders, rounded bust, narrow
waist and full hips, was emphasized in various ways with the cut and trim of
gowns. To about 1835, the small waist was accentuated with a wide belt (a
fashion continuing from the 1820s). Later the waist and midriff were unbelted
but cut close to the body, and the bodice began to taper to a small point at
the front waist. The fashionable corset now had gores to individually cup the
breasts, and the bodice was styled to emphasize this shape.
Evening
gowns had very wide necklines and short, puffed sleeves reaching to the elbow
from a dropped shoulder, and were worn with mid-length gloves. The width at the
shoulder was often emphasized by gathered or pleated panels of fabric arranged
horizontally over the bust and around the shoulders.
Morning
dresses generally had high necklines, and shoulder width was emphasized with
tippets or wide collars that rested on the gigot sleeves. Summer afternoon
dresses might have wide, low necklines similar to evening gowns, but with long
sleeves. Skirts were pleated into the waistband of the bodice, and held out
with starched petticoats of linen or cotton.
Around 1835,
the fashionable skirt-length for middle- and upper-class women's clothes
dropped from ankle-length to floor-length.
Hairstyles and Headgear
Early 1830s
hair was parted in the center and dressed in elaborate curls, loops and knots
extending out to both sides and up from the crown of the head. Braids were
fashionable, and were likewise looped over either ear and gathered into a
topknot.
Bonnets with
wide semicircular brims framed the face for street wear, and were heavily
decorated with trim, ribbons, and feathers.
Married
women wore a linen or cotton cap for daywear, trimmed with lace, ribbon, and
frills, and tied under the chin. The cap was worn alone indoors and under the
bonnet for street wear.
For evening
wear, hair ornaments including combs, ribbons, flowers, and jewels were worn;
other options included berets and turbans.
Outerwear
Riding
habits consisted of a high-necked, tight-waisted jacket with the fashionable
dropped shoulder and huge gigot sleeves, worn over a tall-collared shirt or
chemisette, with a long matching petticoat or skirt. Tall top hats with veils
were worn.
Shawls were
worn with short-sleeved evening gowns early in the decade, but they were not
suited to the wide gigot sleeves of the mid-1830s.
Full-length
mantles were worn to about 1836, when mantles became shorter. A mantlet or
shawl-mantlet was a shaped garment like a cross between a shawl and a mantle,
with points hanging down in front. The burnous was a three-quarter length
mantle with a hood, named after the similar garment of Arabia. The paletot was
knee-length, with three cape-collars and slits for the arms, and the pardessus
was half or three-quarter length coat with a defined waist and sleeves.
For evening,
voluminous mantles of velvet or satin, with fur trim or fur linings in cold
climates, were worn with the evening gown.
Footwear
Low,
square-toed slippers were made of fabric or leather for daytime and of satin
for evening wear. Low boots with elastic insets appeared in this decade.