CARING FOR THE POORLY MOTIVATED – CONFLICT
Conflict is not the only emotion that gets projected into those who are trying to help. The apathy and fatalism that such families generate can also overtake the professional worker. It may then be decided that nothing can be done, apart from dream about some kind of Utopian solution and, like the family itself, the worker may lurch from crisis to crisis. Debts accumulate, electricity and gas are cut off, children do not attend school and may be neglected or abused. Against this background, talk about contraception can be seen by the woman in a negative way as if it is being advocated in order to control rather than to empower her. Where the emphasis is on trying to change social conditions the subject of contraception can be overlooked, yet the failure to raise the issue and give a realistic appraisal of risks and benefits actually denies people freedom of choice.
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