He said the Philippines had to find a way to bring services to the poorest families while also lowering the average number of children that fertile women will bear in their lifetimes.

“We'd like to push the fertility rate down to two children per (woman's) lifetime,” from the current level of an average of three per woman, he said.

While celebrating the birth of the babies with cake and gifts of clothing and blankets, the government will also monitor each of the designated 100 children over the coming years to see if they are receiving the required health services, Perez added.

Jennalyn's father, 45-year-old van driver Clemente Sentino, said he was grateful for the government aid, but expressed confidence he could support his child and his partner.

He and the child's mother, Dailin Cabigayan, 27, are not yet married. “She just happened to get pregnant. But we do have plans to get married,” he told AFP.

It was only in April that the government finally overcame over a decade of Church opposition to implement a reproductive health law providing the poor with birth control services.

Meanwhile, Father Melvin Castro, head of the commission on family and life of the country's Catholic bishops, was quoted by a church-run radio station as praising the ballooning population, as there would be more “young workers” to power the economy.Perez said with the law's implementation, about two to three million women who previously did not have access to family planning now do.

President Benigno Aquino's spokesman Herminio Coloma said the milestone showed the importance of making “the right investments in people”.

The government had prepared for this by spending more on “human development”, particularly education, he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Klaus Beck, country representative of the United Nations Population Fund, endorsed the Philippines' new focus on family planning in a statement issued to coincide with the population landmark.

“Governments that are serious about eradicating poverty should also be serious about providing the services, supplies, information that women, men and young people need to exercise their reproductive rights,” he said.

“I make just enough to get by but at least my job pays regularly. We will find a way to make it fit,” he said.

'Investing in people'

Efforts to control the Philippines' population growth have long been hampered by the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts about 80 percent of Filipinos as followers and which disapproves of all forms of artificial birth control.

菲律賓歡迎全國100萬個嬰兒

法新社
2014年7月28日，上午12:03 TWN

馬尼拉 - 一名女嬰誕生日凌晨已正式推菲律賓的人口為100萬人，凸顯提供越來越多的人在本已貧窮的國家的挑戰。

孩子，Jennalyn Sentino，是100名嬰兒出生在公立醫院遍布誰收到的象徵性標誌群島一“100,000,000個寶貝。”

“這既是機遇，又是挑戰...我們應該充分利用我們認識一個挑戰的機會，”胡安·安東尼奧·佩雷斯，人口的官方委員會執行主任，告訴法新社記者。

而不斷增長的人口意味著更大的勞動力，這也意味著在人約25％生活在貧困之中，其中一個國家更受養人，他說。

他說，菲律賓必須找到一種方法，使服務於最貧困的家庭，同時也降低了孩子的育齡婦女將承擔在其一生中的平均數量。

“我們想生育率推下了兩個孩子每人（女人的）一生，”從平均3每名婦女的現有水平，他說。

雖然慶祝蛋糕，服裝和毛毯禮物嬰兒出生時，政府也將監管的指定100個孩子在未來幾年，看他們是否正在接受所需的醫療服務，佩雷斯補充說。

Jennalyn的父親，45歲的麵包車司機克萊門特Sentino說，他很感謝政府的援助，但表示有信心他可以支持他的孩子和他的合作夥伴。

他和孩子的母親，黛琳Cabigayan，27歲，還沒有結婚。“她剛好懷孕。但我們有結婚的打算，“他告訴法新社記者。

它只是在四月，政府終於克服了十多年的教會反對實施生殖健康法為窮人提供節育服務。

佩雷斯說，法律的實施，大約兩三百萬婦女誰以前沒有獲得計劃生育現在要做的。

同時，父親梅爾文·卡斯特羅，對家庭和國家的天主教主教的生命佣金的頭，是由教會辦的電台引述稱讚人口過快增長，因為將有更多的“青年工人”來發展經濟。

總統阿基諾的發言人埃米尼奧科洛馬說，里程碑顯示使“正確的投資於人”的重要性。

政府已經通過花費更多的“人的發展”，特別是教育準備了這一點，他告訴記者。

同時，克勞斯·貝克，聯合國人口基金的國家代表，贊同菲律賓的新焦點計劃生育發表聲明，隨著人口的地標一致。

“各國政府認真對待消除貧困也應該認真提供服務，耗材，信息，婦女，男人和年輕人需要鍛煉自己的生殖權利，”他說。

“我只是做夠度日，但至少我的工作定期支付。我們會找到一種方法，使其適合，“他說。

“投資於人”

努力控制菲律賓的人口增長一直以來阻礙了羅馬天主教會，它計算的菲律賓人約80％的追隨者，哪些不贊成任何形式的人工節育的影響。