THE IMPACT OF CHILDERN S VALUE ON THE TENDENCY TO HAVE ANOTHER CHILD IN TEHRAN

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of children’s value on the tendency of mothers to have another child (comparison of districts 1 and 19 in Tehran). Comparison of fertility behavior and fertility tendencies of women was performed in order to achieve objectives such as recognizing the impact of children’s value on the tendency to have another child. The theoretical framework basis of this research is social psychology theory, reasonable action theory of Fishbein and Aizen. This study was conducted based on surveying 360 mothers referred to health measurement bases of optometry and audiology for students entering school and they were completely covered in the mentioned period. The results of this study show that there is no significant difference between the number of children and number of intended children, and the difference is negligible. The research results of Husseini and Shavazi in 2009 indicate low fertility norms and value promotion and also represents, fertility convergence of different social groups. 35٫8٪ of women in this research have one child that only 14٫4٪ of these women intended to have one child. 49٪ of women have two children, of which about 10٪ tend to have another child. The rest are going to have two children. 14٪ of women have three children, of which about 8٪ intend to give birth to their fourth child. There is a significant relationship between the variable of children’s value with the tendency to have another child. In addition, there is no significant relationship between the variables of social-economic status of the family and women’s age at their first childbirth.