Cultural Values and Tendency towards Child Bearing Among 15-49- Year- Old Women in Hamadan

The decreased tendency towards child bearing is considered as one of the threatening elements for family foundation. Some researchers attribute the reason of this issue to the economic elements and some others relate it to the cultural elements. The present research investigated this problem by considering the role of cultural elements. The research method was survey and the instrument for collecting data was questionnaire which was answered by 384, 15 - 49 year- old women in Hamadan. They were selected through the clustered sampling and the data was analyzed via SPSS 22 software. The results clarified that there is a significant relationship between the scores belonging to the cultural values and the tendency towards child bearing with 99 percent confidence interval and the individualistic value variable had the strongest relationship (0.658) with the dependent variable. The linear regression analysis showed that the individualistic value variables such as the religious beliefs towards child bearing as well as the viewpoints of women towards the functions of family stated 64.5 percent of changes in the dependent variable. Moreover, and the individualistic value variable and the income of family had the most and the least strength of clarification respectively. Accordingly, the cultural action related to the propagation of religious instructions towards child bearing and the individualist consequences can be helpful in this regard.