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Abstract
This study empirically investigates socio-economic factors affecting the adoption of modern family planning methods in Edo State. The objective is to investigate how preferred family size, spousal resistance andformal secondary school completion determine people’s adoption or cessation from the use of modern family planning methods.
The study is based on a field survey involving the administration of questionnaire on 556 women of reproductive age drawn from six local government areas in the state using random and purposive sampling techniques. The data obtained were analyzed using the logistic regression techniques. The empirical findings reveal that preferred family size increases the adoption of modern family planning methods while the spousal resistance was found to reduce the utilization of modern family planning methods. Use of modern family planning method is discovered to increase with women who had completed formal secondary school. The second model reveals that spousal resistance and preferred family size increases the discontinuity in use of modern family planning methods while medical side effect/complication, disappointment/failure and dissatisfaction with methods increases the discontinuity in use of modern family planning methods. Desire for more children was found to reduce the discontinuity in use because of couples who may still adopts modern family planning for spacing or economic reasons though they desire more children.
The study recommends that men should be given special focus in orientation on their role in ensuring support for their spouses when they come seeking for their consent, campaign for fertility reduction should be taken by the government to the religious houses and traditional leaders who possess great influence in the community and the government should strive to improve transition rates of girls from primary to secondary school to raise the education levels among women which would promote better understanding of reproductive rights and the benefits of modern family planning methods by women.
