Natural Family Planning

Science Consciousness blog posted an entry recently on a study published about the Standard Days Method of Natural Family Planning, which is widely promoted by the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health.

Some of the interesting points to be noted in the study, which will not come as a surprise to those familiar with NFP’s fruits and successes, is that the men were very supportive of this family planning method. This builds consensus in a relationship, which strengthens marriages. Hence,a huge contributing reason for lower divorce rates with NFP couples (and not, as suggested, due to the Catholic moral browbeating).

 All in all, it seems to be an objective and positive review of this particular method of NFP: “These studies were conducted in a wide variety of cultural settings, but in all of them, men found the method easy to use and most stated that they planned to continue using the Standard Days Method and would recommend it to others.”