Open AccessAttitudinal value orientations and perceptions regarding the birth of children of women from Chisinau municipality
Author(s) -
E Grigoraş
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de filozofie, sociologie şi ştiinţe politice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-4160
pISSN - 1857-2294
DOI - 10.53783/18572294.21.186.11
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , modernization theory , psychology , perception , hierarchy , population , social value orientations , developmental psychology , birth rate , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , division of labour , fertility , demography , sociology , political science , neuroscience , machine learning , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , economics , microeconomics
The change of the demographic behavior of the population is determined by the modernization of the norms and attitudinal-value orientations towards the family, marriage in general and towards the birth in particular. Empirical studies highlight the character of changes in reproductive behavior: decreasing the pressure of social norms of society and increasing the hierarchy of individual values. The research results highlight the attitudinal-value orientations regarding the birth of a child, which is characterized by the domination of modern characteristics. The birth of a child is perceived as a self-fulfillment, bringing the greatest joy in the life of the parents and less as a professional self-realization or economic guarantor of the family. The value of the child remains dominant, attributed by the new generations in modern society, being determined by the individual needs, which fuels the psychological well-being of families / couples. Most of women want a family model with three children if they have all the necessary conditions (about 54.2%), and 43% prefer the family model with two children. For the respondents in the younger age groups (18-19, 2024) the perspective of having two children is more attractive, 49.8% and 54.2%, respectively. Married women want a family model with three children (55.5%), and unmarried women are oriented towards a family model with 2 children (49.6%). For Chisinau, the division between the social norms regarding the number of children it plans is between women who plan two children and a child, which in practice means “at least one child and not more than two”.