Research on resilience and the public health approach to the problem of youth violence have brought a new awareness of, and research on, protective factors -- those aspects of the individual and his or her environment that buffer or moderate the effect of risk.
Natural family planning. Natural family planning (NFP) comprises the family planning methods approved by the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant denominations for both achieving and postponing or avoiding pregnancy. In accordance with the Church's teachings regarding sexual behavior, NFP excludes the use of other methods of birth control, which it refers to as artificial contraception.
What is natural family planning? Natural family planning (NFP) is fertility awareness, which is simply knowledge of a coupleâs fertility. It is a means of reading the bodyâs signs of fertility and infertility; applying this knowledge through the Sympto-Thermal Method (STM) is over 99% effective in postponing pregnancy.