Factors Affecting Decision‐Making to Have Children in Iran: A Qualitative Study
Shirin Shahbazi Sighaldeh, Sakineh Taherkhani, Fatemeh Bakouei, Seyedeh Tahereh Mirmolaei, Azam Amzajerdi, Mohadeseh Delpisheh, Roghayeh Faraji Ahmadabad, Pirayeh Ramezani, Farshad Sharifi, Zahra Rastad, Faezeh Ghafoori · 2026
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Shirin Shahbazi Sighaldeh and co-authors explore why people in Iran decide to have children in a 2026 interview study. The team spoke face-to-face in 2025 with 64 people of reproductive age across seven cities, mostly women. Their answers were coded into 678 initial codes and then grouped into themes.
Six main categories emerged, from personal attitudes to social norms, modern lifestyle change, and religious and political beliefs. Money strength at home and government support also mattered. The same factor could help or hinder, depending on how people saw it. The authors urge broad policies that also build positive mindsets about childbearing.
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| CREATOR | Shirin Shahbazi Sighaldeh, Sakineh Taherkhani, Fatemeh Bakouei, Seyedeh Tahereh Mirmolaei, Azam Amzajerdi, Mohadeseh Delpisheh, Roghayeh Faraji Ahmadabad, Pirayeh Ramezani, Farshad Sharifi, Zahra Rastad, Faezeh Ghafoori |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 100979 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |