Family Planning: By the use of contraceptives, the couple can prevent pregnancy and maintain their reproductive health. So, it helps in family planning. Maintaining the health of the mother: If an adequate time gap is not maintained between pregnancies, the health of the mother gets deteriorated.

How does the use of contraceptives have a direct effect on the health and prosperity of the family?

"the use of contraceptive methods has a direct effect on the health and prosperity of a family." (i) It prevents the chances of frequent pregnancies, which otherwise affect the health of females. (ii) It helps in family planning by controlling the number of children in a family, thus reducing the chances of poverty.

What factors influence how effective a contraceptive method is?

Factors associated with contraceptive choice or effectiveness of use include women's personal characteristics and childbearing goals;^17–28 sexual relationship characteristics and partner influences;^{23,26,28–37} social and economic characteristics;^{30,35,36,38–41} community, family and peer relationships;^{19,23,24,28,35,36} ...