Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

the purpose of this study is to determine how attitude towards education and the decision to continue education can affect first fertility among women who are about to marry in Neishabur. This article is based on a scaling on 415 women of 10 to 39 who are about to marry. These women referred to the Main Clinic in Neishabur to give premarital tests in October and November 2013 for their first marriage. The tool used to gather information is a questionnaire. The dependant variable is the decision to postpone fertility since marriage, and the independent variables are the attitude towards education and continuing education, and the confounding variables are and some demographics variables.
Results: women's attitude towards education and their decision to continue education after getting married has high significance on the intention to postpone fertility since getting married to the first fertility. It can be considered in planning. Positive attitude towards education and the decision to continue education after getting married in spite of the low age of marriage in the case studied have a great impact on fertility behavior by postponing the first fertility. That is to say the interference in women's education and their fertility is usually responded by spacing between marriage and the first fertility. This response has a direct impact on the fertility amount and fertility behavior in the society studied. Therefore, population policies can be more effective by planning to adapt the motherhood role with continuing education after getting married.

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