US EditionRussia to Refer Women Who Don’t Want Children to Psychologists
Updated guidelines advise doctors to refer women without child plans to therapists to promote positive attitudes amid Russia's birth rate at a 200-year low, according to Rosstat.
- TASS reported Wednesday that Russia's Health Ministry advised doctors to refer women who say they do not plan to have children to therapists, with recommendations approved in late February.
- Amid a demographic crisis, Russia faces a falling birth rate and natural population decline, with births in 2024 at 1.22 million and fertility rate around 1.4 per woman.
- Under the new guidelines, doctors will ask women how many children they want, and if a woman answers zero, she is recommended for consultation with a medical psychologist.
- Authorities have paired the guidance with policies such as boosted state financial support for child-rearing, abortion restrictions, promotion of so-called 'traditional values', and benefits for large families.
- President Vladimir Putin frames the shrinking population as a matter of national survival, warning in 2024 that Russia faced 'extinction' if birth rates did not rise, while Rosstat projects the population will fall below 138.8 million by 2046.
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A new directive of the Russian Ministry of Health recommends sending women who do not want to have children to psychology, to make them change their mind, a measure that would have been meant to combat the country's demographic crisis, reports AFP. The decline in the birth rate in Russia is one of the main concerns of President Vladimir Putin ...
In the face of the demographic crisis, the Russian Ministry of Health recommends sending women who do not wish to have children to consult psychologists to change their mind. Men are concerned by the need to...
The Russian government wants women who do not want children to seek psychological care to convince them to change their mind, according to a new directive aimed at combating the demographic crisis in the country. The Russian Ministry of Health now recommends that doctors who do not want to have children “for consultation with a psychologist, with a view to promoting a positive attitude towards motherhood”, as a document to which AFP has access t…
In the face of a birth in a free fall, Moscow relies on the psychological follow-up of women without children, while men are concerned only with physical health checks.
A directive from the Russian Ministry of Health consulted on Thursday, March 19 recommends several measures to stop the demographic crisis in the country, a major concern of Vladimir Putin aggravated by the war in Ukraine.
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