Study of Role Model of Family Policy through Analysis of Islamic Republic of Iran Upstream Documents

Family Policy deals with the effects of social policies and the government’s actions on family. The present study addressed the government's explicit and written policies directly affecting family and position of women in order to reveal the major themes and role models of family policymaking pattern in Iran. Research results showed that emphasis on marriage and the need for it, establishment of gender inequality, sexual division of labor in family, emphasis on the function of childbearing and upbringing as the key function of family, Maintaining family stability through degenderization in public space and observance of women's hijab and chastity constitute the major themes of family policy in Iran. Family policy in Iran reproduces and stabilizes the traditional "male-breadwinner/female-homemaker" model despite its attention to women employment. The approach of social policy in Iran is familialization strategy, but this social policy is not uniform and there are cases of paradoxical confusions.