تحلیلی بر رابطه‌ی ارزش فرزندان و باروری بین زنان تهرانی

This paper examines the relationship between the value of children and fertility rate among tehran’s women. the numbers of sample is about 600 married women, in the range from 21 to 50 years and are settled in the tehran city. in this study, housewife women include 57.2 percent of research, 30.3 percent is employee women who work in the education and12.5 percent work in the health ministry. the results indicate that 35 percent of them have one child, 35 percent have two children and 15 percent have three children. pertaining to having desired children, 25 percent of them prefer to have one child, approximately 66 percent prefer to have two children and about 9 percent prefer to have more than two children. according to conducted analysis, there is no difference between women’s employment different groups (those who work in education and health ministry) and also non-employee women concerning children value. the variable of education level in both housewife and employee women is in direct proportion to the components of child’s economic interests and lost opportunities and restrictions.