Russian women decry therapy plan to get them to have children

Russia approved new guidelines in February recommending that health professionals send women who do not want children to a psychotherapist, a move critics say could be damaging to their psychological health
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Russian women say the idea of using therapy to get them to have children is coercive, cruel and unworkable, and will do little to reverse declining birth rates — currently at their lowest in 200 years.The health ministry approved new guidelines in February recommending that health professionals send women who do not want children to a psychotherapist with the aim of “fostering a positive attitude toward motherhood.”But women interviewed for this story said the plan would not work
They asked to be referred only by their first names for this story.

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