Investigating influential factors in reducing the desire to have children in Iranian society

Childbearing is one of the important components of population science and is one of the topics that is very important in the field of social issues. Therefore, reducing the desire to have children is one of the important issues in the Islamic society of Iran because it will gradually move the age structure of the population out of the state of youth and towards old age. In order to prevent the consequences of delay in having children, we need research and applications. This systematic review searched the published articles of the last five years in existing Iranian and foreign databases including SID, Magiran, Irandoc, Med lib, Pubmed, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Proquest. The results of the research indicated that many factors such as personal, family, socio-economic and cultural factors, including modernity, urbanization and industrialization, changing attitudes towards the value of children, changes in family values and religious faith, reduce the desire to Having children has an effect. Policy makers should pay special attention to all these factors in their plans and strategies. Women who live in large cities and towns are more likely to believe that childbearing is a barrier than women who live in medium-sized cities or rural areas. In addition, delaying childbearing is more common among women with higher education.

Keywords:

childbearing , reduction of population growth , women in Iranian society , willingness to have children