[Family planning instruments]

Under the contemporary conditions family planning is being connected with the problems of family and reproductive health. Family planning is realized spontaneously or deliberately using definite ways, called methods and instruments of family planning (demographic instruments, sociological and economical instruments, technical instruments of medico-biological character). It has been given a great significance of the sociological and the economical ways and methods, since it has been pointed out the role of the economical determinants of the reproductive behaviour (encouraging activities; restrictive sanctioning measures). At present these measures are not effective in Bulgaria. At the best case the spouses have know each other partially affected in their behaviour mainly to shorten the interval between births (wanted and unwanted). Technical devices of family planning in Bulgaria have been gradually coming into use. The effects and their utilization is still on a comparatively lower level. This is due to several important moments (administrative level, pronatalism, lack of currency, misconception in govern policy, etc.).