Effective Social Factors on the Number of Children of Married Women in Ahar Township

With the expansion of modernity processes, many aspects of life, including the attitude of Iranian families towards childbearing, have changed, and a marked decline in fertility has been a common phenomenon in recent decades. The main objective of the paper is to identify the social factors affecting the number of children of married women. The study of the problem and the application of contingency plans to prevent the aging of the Ahar township population in the coming years, due to the natural, agricultural and industrial potential of this region, is of double importance. Data were collected from 760 married women aged 18-50 years old in Ahar Township, selected by multi-stage cluster sampling and multi-stage sampling. The findings show that the average number of children for each of the women is 2.03 children. By controlling the variables of duration of marriage, regression models show that female education, father's education and preferring to have a child's daughter in the low level of fertility of women and, conversely, the number of brothers and sisters, the homeland of women and the choice of the spouse by parents. Women's fertility levels are high. The result is that the threefold social domains affecting childbearing include paternal family characteristics, spouse's age and educational characteristics, and the characteristics of women who, by changing these platforms, decide on the adoption of couples in terms of the number, distance between births and even the gender of children. Take up The results indicate that women's fertility behaviors are a cultural behavior shaped over different periods of time, and to raise the number of women's children, one should use long-term programs that include childhood, marriage, and the current time of women.