ABSTRACT
All mothers who knew of the existence of clinics, whether they had been to one or not, were asked what they thought were the advantages – if any – of a clinic compared with going to their general practitioner for advice about family planning. Seventy-two per cent of the mothers who had ever been to a family planning clinic said they had a method in mind before they went there, 26 per cent wanted the staff to suggest one and 2 per cent had other problems. The proportions are similar to those among mothers who had raised the question of family planning with their general practitioner. There was a difference in the methods agreed by mothers going to the clinic with a method in mind and those advised by the clinic to mothers who went wanting the people at the clinic to suggest a method.
