Moscow ¨C 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 ¡ª 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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