Value of Children and Fertility in the City of Shiraz

Rajabi, Mahrokh; Hasheminya, Fatemeh

Value of Children and Fertility in the City of Shiraz

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mahrokh Rajabi ¹

Fatemeh Hasheminya ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Sociology, Shiraz University

² M.A. in Demography, Shiraz University

Abstract

This research has analyzed the value of children and fertility. Data were gathered by using survey method, and sample consists of 406 women that are 15-49 years old married women in Shiraz city. Findings show that factors such as marriage age, women's, and husbands' education have reverse relation with value of children, actual and ideal fertility. Increasing in value of factors such as women's age, length of marriage, and avoiding of single child have increased the numbers of children ever born, the ideal numbers of children, and value of children. Findings have shown that there is significant correlation between economic, social, and religious dimensions value of children with actual fertility, also economic, and religious dimensions value of children with ideal fertility. According to factors (demographic, socio- economic, and value of children), Results of multiple regression have showed that length of marriage, birth place, marriage age of women, women's education, tend to sex combination of children, social and economic benefits, and social costs of children are able to explain variances of the actual fertility. Length of marriage, avoiding of single child, tend to sex combination of children, and economic benefits of children have explained the variances of ideal fertility.

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