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Iran’s 14 point plan for population growth

June 6th, 2014

by Shannon Roberts

It is a new reality around the world that fertility is a government issue and children must now be encouraged in case we end up with none at all in generations to come (or not come).

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has recently released a 14 point policy to speed up the country’s population growth and reverse its declining birth rate. He called for the different institutions of the country to implement the plans with “precision, speed and strength.” In recent years the country has experienced one of the most steeply falling birth rates in the world.

It is a sign of the times that countries such as Iran need to write a comprehensive plan to encourage people to have families – something that it was taken for granted their parents and grandparents would do. These are the 14 measures decided on:

1) Increase the fertility rate to above replacement levels of 2.3 births per woman.

2) Eliminate barriers to marriage, lower the age of marriage, and support young couples. High property prices have been a factor prompting many middle-class Iranians to put off marriage.

3) Provide proper facilities for mothers during pregnancy, insurance coverage for childbirth and treatment for both male and female infertility.

4) Reform public education curriculums to emphasize the importance of the family.

5) Promote and institutionalise an Islamic-Iranian lifestyle and oppose undesirable aspects of the Western lifestyle.

6) Provide access to healthy living and food options as well as prevent societal ills such as addiction and pollution.

7) Take care of the elderly.

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