Government's Anti-Poverty Program Gets Criticism After Drawing Line at 3 Children Mark Stevenson - Associated Press
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A Mixteco indigenous girl looks up at her mother as she gets weighed at a health clinic in Cochoapa El Grande, Mexico. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

MEXICO CITY — The head of Mexico's anti-poverty program drew criticism Monday after she warned Indian mothers that government aid programs would help support only their first three children.

Activists said the warning by Social Development Secretary Rosario Robles appeared insulting and aimed at punishing women who have more children.

Robles' department said the three-child rule has actually been in place since July 2012, before current President Enrique Pena Nieto took office. The Associated Press found a reference to a similar guideline in government documents dating back to 2011, when the change appears to have first been made.

Her office said the rules apply to Indians and non-Indians alike.

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