{"id":106225,"date":"2026-03-19T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russia-to-refer-women-who-dont-want-children-to-psychologists\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:55:08","slug":"russia-to-refer-women-who-dont-want-children-to-psychologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russia-to-refer-women-who-dont-want-children-to-psychologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to refer women who don't want children to psychologists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MOSCOW: Russia will refer women who do not want to have children to psychologists under new health guidelines designed to address a systemic demographic crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s dwindling birth rate has been one of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s main worries during his 25-year rule and with Moscow having sent hundreds of thousands of young men to the front in Ukraine over the last four years, the problem has only worsened.<\/p>\n

Under new guidelines from the health ministry for reproductive health checks, doctors will ask women how many children they want to have.<\/p>\n

If the woman answers zero, \u201cit is recommended to send the patient to a consultation with a medical psychologist with the goal of forming a positive attitude towards having children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recommendations were approved in late February but only picked up by state media this week.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin chief casts Russia\u2019s shrinking population as a matter of national survival \u2014 warning in 2024 Russia faced \u201cextinction\u201d if it did not boost birth rates.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s birth rate is running at a 200-year low of around 1.4 per woman \u2014 far below the 2.1 that demographers say is necessary for a stable population.<\/p>\n

In recent years Moscow has tightened abortion rules and passed bills to make so-called \u201cchild-free propaganda\u201d illegal.<\/p>\n

Large families are heralded as national heroes and offered a host of financial and social benefits from the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW: Russia will refer women who do not want to have children to psychologists under new health guidelines designed to address a systemic demographic crisis. Russia\u2019s dwindling birth rate has been one of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s main worries during his 25-year rule and with Moscow having sent hundreds of thousands of young men to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Russia-1.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t