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family planning

Family planning is defined as a program to take steps to control when you conceive children and how many children you conceive.

(noun)

An example of family planning is taking birth control pills.

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See family planning in Webster's New World College Dictionary

the regulation, as by birth control methods, of the number, spacing, etc. of children that a family will have

See family planning in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A program to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family through the practice of contraception or other methods of birth control.

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