Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi; Fatemeh Torabi; Rasoul Sadeghi; Arefe Javadinia
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AbstractWith the reduction of fertility to below-replacement level and increasing the challenges and conflicts between the interests and attitudes of individuals and families, the informal support has significant impact in removing childbearing barriers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ...
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AbstractWith the reduction of fertility to below-replacement level and increasing the challenges and conflicts between the interests and attitudes of individuals and families, the informal support has significant impact in removing childbearing barriers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of informal support on desire to have children using social support theory. The statistical population of the study is women with a wife and at least one child aged under five years in Nowshahr and Chalous cities. Data were collected by conducting a survey among 362 women. The findings show that 47% of mothers desire to have another child. The findings of our multivariate analysis indicate that such supportive variables as the amount of assistance received by the spouse in housework, receiving assistance in housework from the parent-in-law and frequency of face-to-face communication with parents -in-law have increased the desire of mothers to have another child . In addition, the results in relation to supportive indicators indicate that the potential support index did not have a significant relationship with the desire to have more children, but receiving high levels of instrumental support had an impact on increasing the desire to have another child. In general, the relationship between social support theory and childbearing can be partially confirmed. The results of supportive variables affecting the desire to have another child.
rasol sadeghi; mohammad shekoftehgohari
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Study of the Impacts of Unemployment on the Delayed Marriage of Young People in Tehran Rasol Sadeghi[1] , Mohammad Shekofteh Gohari[2] Received: 26/12/2016 Accepted: 5/2/2017 Abstract Unemployment significantly affects demographic processes such ...
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Study of the Impacts of Unemployment on the Delayed Marriage of Young People in Tehran Rasol Sadeghi[1] , Mohammad Shekofteh Gohari[2] Received: 26/12/2016 Accepted: 5/2/2017 Abstract Unemployment significantly affects demographic processes such as marriage, divorce, fertility, and migration. The purpose of this paper is to examine the unemployment experience and its impacts on the delay in marriage of young men in Tehran using a combination research method (quantitative and qualitative data). In this regard, the article first uses a secondary analysis of 2011 micro-census data in Tehran to test the effect of employment status and unemployment on marriage delays, then, applying a qualitative research method and in-depth interview with 27 young single unemployed, studying the experience of youth unemployment And its consequences in the area of marriage delays. The quantitative results showed that the probability of being single among unemployed people is about eight times higher than those employed. By controlling other independent variables, unemployment also has a strong impact on probability of being single. The qualitative findings reveal five main categories of job identity, luxury/ materialism, abandonment, job insecurity, and rationality in deciding whether to delay marriage. As the result of the research it can be understand that unemployment and job insecurity leads to high uncertainty about the future, so that the young men decide to delay marriage until an unknown future. Keywords: Youth Bulge, Youth Unemployment, Economic Insecurity, Exclusion, Delayed Marriage. [1]. Associate Professor of Demography, University of Tehran and National Institute of Population Research, Iran. (Corresponding Author) Email: rassadeghi@ut.ac.ir [2]. MA in Demography, University of Tehran, Iran. Email: mohammad.gohari@ut.ac.ir
