KENYA: Promote the use of Natural Family Planning in the 21st century
By Rose Achiego, Waumini Communications KCCB
Couples have been urged to embrace and promote the use of Natural Family Planning (NFP) in child spacing. Speaking during the African Regional Conference on Families on 23rd, September, 2016, The Vice Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – Family Life National Office Rt. Rev. Alfred Rotich said that there is need to restore sexual sanity and morality to give marriage and family their rightful places and dignity. He added that there is no better method of family planning than NFP for the 21st century and beyond.
Bishop Rotich emphasized that, NFP is the best way of promoting life by which society is assured of strengthening the institution of marriage, building up the human family, and nurturing children. “NFP is a method that respects the dignity of man, woman and life.” He said.
He observed that the greatest benefit of NFP is that it calls for the same traits that are fundamental for marriage as a whole noting that, any teaching of NFP is always within the context of enhancing marriage, strengthening family bonds, promoting responsible parenthood as well as the respect for temporal life from conception to natural death. “Any method of child spacing that fails to see that children are a gift from God is wrong. It is important to delight in the reality that children are indeed a gift of the Lord” He said
The World Health organization recognizes NFP as the safest method of spacing births. It also has the added advantage of helping couples to achieve pregnancy and even pre-selecting the sex of the baby. The African Regional Conference on Families was held in Nairobi, Kenya and brought together about 200 participants from Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, USA and Rome to deliberate on the issues affecting the family.
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