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Making Choices Together.

By thinking and making decisions regarding your marital roles and expectations may help you to approach marriage with a firmer sense of reality.

Ø      Will the husband be the main or sole family provider or will the wife share this role?

Ø      What about housekeeping duties? Will the wife be the main or sole homemaker (cleaning, cooking, dishes, laundry, shopping) or will the husband share this role?

Ø      What about money? Should the husband and wife pool their income and pay all expenses out of the common funds? If so, how are surplus funds to be divided and used? Should they retain their own income and with each paying a proportionate sum of the expenses?

Ø      What about culture, religion and educational background? Are they similar or are there differences? Are the differences acceptable to both of you? Are both partners willing to compromise?

Ø      How will the husband divide his time and energies between his career, his family and other interests? Similarly the wife too, if she is working.

Ø      When should both husband and wife start having children? How many to have? Should children be produced out of choice or let nature takes its course.

Ø      Should contraception be used? What kind? Whose responsibility is it?

Ø      Couples should delay the first pregnancy until the wife is at least the age of 20. A woman is not physically ready to begin bearing children until she is about 20 years of age.

Ø      For the health of both mothers and children, parents should wait until their youngest is at least two years old before having another baby.

Ø      Children born too close together do not normally develop physically or mentally as well as children born at least 2 years apart.

Ø      A woman’s body needs at least 2 years rest to recover fully from pregnancy and childbirth.

Family Planning therefore gives you the choice to effectively practice responsible parenthood. It gives you the choice of when to begin having children, how many to have, how far apart to have them and when to stop.

For further information or advice on marriage and family life, contact

Federation of Family Planning Associations, Malaysia or your

State Family Planning Association.

Produced by: The Federation of Family Planning Associations, Malaysia

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