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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.4.210

A Study on the Effects of Married Women's Intention of Childbirth  

Un, Sun-Kyoung (Division of Social Welfare, KC University)
Park, Hyo-Jin (Division of General Education, Hyupsung University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.4, 2020 , pp. 210-217 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper analyzes the factors influencing the childbirth intention of married women with the goal of analyzing whether times of spouses' housework, marital satisfaction, values of children and traditional gender role, and social services related to the reduction of low fertility contribute to women's intention to give birth. The respondents of the research were 1,000 married women, and the research was conducted with 482 women of childbirth intention. The findings are as follows. Age of sociodemographic factors has an influence on the childbirth intention. Related to family's character, factors influencing childbirth intention are number of children, times of spouses' housework, and marital satisfaction. In addition, emotional and instrumental values of children, number of recognized public services for reduction of low fertility. In other words, the more women share housework with spouses and satisfy their marital life, the more childbirth intention of women is increased. In order to improve childbirth intention, changes of perception of gender role and sharing housework, reinforcement of social system for work and family compatibility that convert changes of perception into action, advanced marital relationship programs, extensive support for subfertility and a huge build-up of social services related to reduction of low fertility need to be provided.
Keywords
Intention of Childbirth; Low Fertility; Work and Family Compatibility; Sharing Housework; Value of children; Martial Satisfaction;
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