Phenomenology of the lived experience of single girls over 30 years of lifestyle adoption

Marriage and family formation is one of the components of an acceptable lifestyle in life. Procrastination leads to undesirable consequences, and the breakdown of the institution of the family is one of these undesirable social harms. In order to compensate for these injuries, adoption in single girls over the age of 30 is a basic strategy. In this regard, the aim of this study was to identify the lived experience of single girls over the age of 30 from the lifestyle resulting from childbearing by phenomenological study. The statistical population of the study includes single girls over 30 years of age who have accepted child custody after the adoption of the law on custody in 2013 to March 2017 and the sampling was purposeful. The qualitative findings of the study showed that the analysis of 20 in-depth interviews from the participants led to the extraction of eleven sub-categories and four main categories. The main categories with their subcategories include: the quality of family relationships (changes in the individual's relationship with the family; a sense of responsibility towards the family; leisure activities); Social space of life (change in the level of social interactions, feeling of vitality and happiness, the scope of social communication); Physical health status (improvement of health status, analysis of health status) and self-satisfaction and life (changes in lifestyle after custody, providing sense and maternal need, no regret of accepting custody). Thus, the results indicate that girls with lived experience of childbearing have generally experienced different lifestyles, and the components of this lifestyle are different from those common in society.