In the olden days, it was a well-known facts, that a rich and wealth man is known by the number of children and yam barns he had. (Greater in number) but recently, the reverse is the case, in that a rich and wealth man is known as a man with lesser number of children who he takes greater care of.

The mass media had played a contributory role recently to educate parents in particular and the public in general of family planning programmes. This work however, is on how the mass media family planning programmes have reached the target audience the moreover, how they feel about it.

The research work has gone to prove that the family planning programmes as show on the screen or listed to by the audience had in one way or the other changed the attitude of some families positively towards child spacing.

TITLE PAGE                            II
ABSTRACT                            III

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION                        1
1.1    Background                        1
1.2    Brief history of family planning            2
1.3    Statement of problem                    9
1.4    Purpose of the study                    10
1.5    Significance of the study                10
1.6    Scope of the study                    12
1.7    Research questions                    12
1.8A    Hypothesis                            13
1.8B    Assumption                            14
1.9    Definition of terms                    15
1.10    Operational and theoretical framework        15

CHAPTER TWO - SOURCES
2.1    Rules of the media and programme strategies    17
2.2    Summary of literature review                32

CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
3.1    Research design                        36
3.2    Research sample                        36        
3.3    Measuring instrument                    37
3.4    Data collection                        37

CHAPTER FOUR
4.1    Analyses and resume                    39
4.2    Hypotheses test                        43
4.3    Results                            46
4.4    Discussion                            48

CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION FOR FUTURE STUDY
5.1    Summary                            49
5.2    Recommendation for future study            52

BIBLIOGRAPHY                        54        
APPENDIX                            56
QUESTIONNAIRE                        57