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Russian Women Decry Therapy Plan to Get Them to Have Children
The guidelines come as Russia’s fertility rate stands at 1.4 children per woman, while lawmakers have also banned child-free propaganda and tightened abortion rules.
- Russian authorities approved guidelines in February recommending health professionals refer women who do not want children to a psychotherapist, aiming at "fostering a positive attitude toward motherhood."
- Russia faces a demographic crisis with fertility rates at 1.4 children per woman, far below the 2.1 threshold needed to maintain population. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the country could face "veritable extinction" if low birth rates persist.
- Lawmakers banned so-called "child-free propaganda," outlawing media conversations about choosing not to have children, with violators facing fines of up to 400,000 rubles . Authorities also tightened abortion laws, forcing private clinics in most regions to ban the procedure.
- Maria, a 25-year-old IT specialist, rejected the initiative as "pathetic," arguing that "tightening the screws" and "sending them to a psychologist" is "cruel and completely ineffective." Women interviewed said the plan would not work.
- Anastasia, a 29-year-old child rehabilitation specialist, pointed to "the lack of a fatherhood culture" and financial barriers—her salary of about 100,000 rubles monthly makes housing unaffordable. The deployment of young men to Ukraine has further aggravated the demographic crisis.
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Russian women decry plans to therapise them into having children
Russian women say the idea of "therapising" them into having children is coercive, cruel and unworkable, and will do little to reverse declining birth rates -- currently at their lowest in 200 years.
·Cherokee County, United States
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And now the visit "to the shrink": outraged, Russian women without children by choice are now forced to consult a psychologist by a state terrified by a dark birth that no incentive seems capable of redressing.
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Since the end of February, the Russian Ministry of Health has recommended that doctors send women who do not want children to a consultation with a psychologist.
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