Attitude Toward Childbearing in a Context of Low Fertility "The Case of Shiraz City of Iran"

Abstract
This study contributes to research regarding the recent main changes in the number of women´s children ever born related to economic- social and demographic factors. This sample consists of 406 participants: 15-49 year- old women who are married, living with their husband and living in Shiraz city, the method of gathering of data is self- reporting questionnaire. These findings suggest the increase in age of marriage, social class, education levels, decrease attitude toward childbearing. Also some factors like women´s age, the duration of marriage increase the number of children ever born. Occupation, the place birth, avoiding of single child, the girl preference and tendency to gender combination of children affect on women´s childbearing. Moreover, women tend to have more children in order to keep the solidarity, closeness of their family up. Finally the stepwise regression shows that among the whole of regarded variables, the duration of marriage, women´s education, girl preference and the place birth totally are able to explain 60 percent of the women´s child bearing.