Human population planning

planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans

treatise by Thomas Malthus

practice of controlling rate of growth

thumb|upright=1.1|Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, surrounded by his family. Twice married, he fathered 16 children during his life. Natalism (also called pronatalism or the pro-birth position) is a policy paradigm or personal value that promotes the reproduction of human life as an important objective of humanity and therefore advocates a high birthrate.