ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Mothers' views about appropriate people to give professional advice about family planning, their most frequent sources of information, and the characteristics of mothers who are most likely to get professional help. It describes the sort of help and advice mothers get from different people, and the important question of who first raises the subject of family planning – the mother or the professional. The informal network of relatives and friends is a more frequent source of information about birth control than professional advice. The mothers who do get professional help are of two main kinds – those who ask for it, and some of those number of children or social conditions prompt their general practitioner, health visitor or hospital doctor to offer it. The general practitioners were asked whether under certain circumstances they would introduce the subject of family planning themselves, discuss it only if asked directly or not discuss it even if asked directly.
