COMMUNITY Development and Social Services minister Doreen Mwamba has urged unemployed and vulnerable couples to seriously consider taking up family planning to avoid having a large number of children they can’t afford to take care of. Mwamba notes that it’s very irresponsible for a couple to continue having children whom they can’t feed, cloth or educate and expect government to help; in the process putting stress on service providers. According to the JCTR Basic Needs and Nutrition Basket (BNNB) for February 2024, the cost of living for a family of five in Lusaka stood at K10,307.01. In an interview with Diggers Life, Mwamba stressed that couples who had two or three children should consider family planning due to economic hardships...