THE IMPLEMENTATION OF VOLUNTARY family planning programs has been the principal policy initiative pursued by governments in the developing world that wish to reduce rapid population growth. The main rationale for this programmatic approach is an unfulfilled demand for contraception that presumably exists in many populations. Freedman and Coombs summarize the reason why such a potential demand is likely to be found in developing countries:
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