A study of relationship between religiosity, sex role attitude, attitude toward children and ideal and actual number of children

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD of sociology and assistant proff. in Iranian Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR)- fars branch

2 MA. In cultural management in ACECR-fars branch

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to answer these questions: What is the ideal number of children
for married women and what is its relationship to their religiosity and gender role attitudes.
To answer this question, the literature reviewed, and questionnaire among 400 married
women in Shiraz distributed using stratified random sampling. Findings showed that also
religiosity has a significant relationship to actual number of children but there is a
considerable agreement about ideal number of them can be seen regardless of religiosity.
Attitudes towards gender roles have a significant relationship with the ideal number of
children which remains significant after control of other variables. Finding suggests that
women plan number of their children regarding the role of a good woman in their mind. The
results show that the rate of population growth has strong cultural roots and is a consequence
of changing values to more individualistic nature and gender role attitudes. Women now are
more care about quality of family life and upbringing better children and it is more important
than the number of children.

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