Population Control & Contraceptive Methods — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptThe most important step to overcome this problem is to motivate smaller families by using various contraceptive methods. You might have seen advertisements in the media as well as posters/bills, etc., showing a happy couple with two children with a slogan Hum Do Hamare Do (we two, our two). Many couples, mostly the young, urban, working ones have even adopted an 'one child norm'. Statutory raising of marriageable age of the female to 18 years and that of males to 21 years, and incentives given to couples with small families are two of the other measures taken to tackle this problem. Let us describe some of the commonly used contraceptive methods, which help prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Assertion (A): Raising the marriageable age of females helps reduce the birth rate. Reason (R): Early marriage shortens the reproductive lifespan of females.
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Correct answer: C — A is true but R is false
Raising marriageable age reduces birth rate, but early marriage increases (not shortens) reproductive lifespan.
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