Generational Differences and Preferences in Childbearing in the city of Sari (opinions and attitudes)

This paper is from a research that was conducted with the title of the factors affecting attitude difference of girls and their mothers towards childbearing by case study of pre-school girls and their mothers in the city of Sari. This study briefly reviews some classic theories and uses suggested theories of the recent decades and also the intermediate variables model, population and gender equality regimes of McDonald and also John Simon's social promoting and identity theory to the desirable investigation. The four independent components include moral obligation (the theory of John Simon), assumption of a child (of the population regimes), belief in gender equality (the theory of gender equality of McDonald) and the desire to progress (from the theory of social prompting) with assumption component of childbearing as extraction dependent variable and survey method in 360 operational sample units. To identify the attitude difference of mother and daughters, U-Mann-Whitney test was used and significant tests and Multi-variable regression analysis were used to determine how much of the variance of the dependent variables is explained by each independent variable. The results confirmed the effect of each of the independent variables (e.g. ethical commitment, a belief in gender equality, the desire to progress, assumption of a child)on dependent variable (e.g. mothers and daughter's attitude toward childbearing) and significantly revealed differences between mothers and daughters.