[Experience with the work of the "Family and Marriage" counselling agency in Moscow]. / Opyt raboty konsul'tatsii "Sem'ia i brak" v Moskve

PIP: The counselling center "Family and Marriage" was created in Moscow in 1974. It is a new sort of polyclinical institution which provides basic types of specialized assistance mainly directed towards family planning. The center mainly assists subjects with diseases affecting their reproductive function. In addition, it supplies sex education. The center has 6 specialized departments: infertility, abortions, gynecological endocrinology; sexual pathology; medico-genetic consultation, and contraception. The center works in close contact with the institutes for scientific research of the ministry of obstetrics and gynecology, the ministry of psychiatry and other government organizations. The center "Family and Marriage" welcomed 9072 people in 1975. 72.6% were women, 27.4% men. Among the specialized investigation procedures practiced by the center are genealogical analysis, cytogenetic study, study of the sex chromatin.^ieng