سیده زینب رضوانی - Director of Psychology Department of Bint Al-Huda Higher Education Complex affiliated with Mustafa Al-Alamiyah
حسین رضائیان - PhD student at Psychology, Imam Khomeini Institute, Qom, Iran.

Today, adoption and having children is one of the important issues, the expansion or non-expansion of which is the subject of conflict between supporters and opponents. Proponents have mentioned arguments such as reviving childhood days and the child within parents, creating mental peace due to economic-social growth for themselves and society, happiness of parents, fulfillment of parents' motives, etc. in order to spread adoption. On the other hand, the opponents also put forward arguments about the heavy responsibility of having children, physical and mental problems for the mother, environmental dangers and lack of mental peace for the parents, etc. The explanation and analysis of this issue in normative ethics with a utilitarian approach is also of particular importance because the basis of this view is more profit and pleasure for most people. If an action such as having children results in more benefits for most people, it is morally right, and otherwise it will be wrong. Since one of the most important benefits for humans in any matter is its psychological benefit and it is the basis for persuading a person to do an action or not, in this research the psychological consequences of having children from the point of view of utilitarians who are in favor and against having children have been investigated and criticized in a descriptive-analytical way.

Childbearing, Consequential Reasons, Moral theories, Psychological Consequences