How to Adopt "Family Planning" into the Curriculum of Home Economics Education (II)

Abstract

In order to get fundamental data for adopting family planning into the curriculum, personal inquiries have been made at three public schools in Hiroshima Prefecture, in order to know how the high school girls recognize this theme at present. The results are summarized as follows: 1) Ninety-four(94) percent of the high school girls wanted to marry in future. The major reasons for the marriage were to have a sweet home with their lovers and to give birth to and bring up their children. 2) They answered that they wanted to have 2 or 3 children. Even the majority of the girls who would not marry wanted to bring up their children. 3) They were well aware of a necessity of family planning, as they learned it school. 4) About 90% of the girls were aware of contraception and how to use contraceptives. They learned it mostly at school or from journals.