Childbearing Motivation Of Married Women Aged 20-40 Years In Hubei Province

Fertility policy is a fundamental public policy for the government to control the population.Highly related to fertility behavior,women’s childbearing motivation is an important consideration for the formulation and improvement of population fertility policy.As a major economic province in central China,Hubei province has a large population.Therefore,childbearing motivation of married women aged 20-40 in Hubei province not only has a vital impact on the population development of the province and the central region,but also is as valuable reference for the study of the childbearing motivation of women in the country.Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the family planning policy in China has undergone three stages: from promoting fertility to advocating family planning,from advocating family planning to restricting family planning,from restricting family planning to loosening family planning.The previous two adjustments of the fertility policy had a significant impact on the fertility situation in Hubei Province.However,the gradually relaxed fertility policy in recent 10 years has not improved the fertility situation in Hubei Province,which is mainly affected by the low fertility willingness of married women aged 20-40.Based on the characteristic intention planning sequence model theory,the cost-utility theory of children and the rational choice theory,this thesis analyzes the fertility intention of married women aged 20-40 in Hubei province through questionnaire survey and empirical research,and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to improve the fertility intention of women.The method is to use SPSS20.0 software to analyze the data of the 1 ‰ population change sampling survey in 2022 from the perspectives of age,urban and rural areas,education background and employment,and to analyze the fertility intention of married women aged 20-40 in Hubei Province from three aspects: ideal number of children,birth intention and birth intention time.The results show that,from the perspective of age,related policy in Hubei province is not enough to support child birth of elderly pregnant women and newly married women;from the perspective of urban and rural areas,the foundation of a friendly childbearing urban environment remains weak;from the perspective of education,the support for child birth of highly educated women in colleges is insufficient,and from the perspective of employment,the support for the childbearing of female workers still needs to be improved.In this regard,it is proposed to implement differentiated fertility support policies for married women of different ages,such as developing childbearing friendly towns,providing marriage and childbearing assistance to college girls in terms of study and accommodation,and further extending maternity leave for professional women.Base on that it will improve the fertility willingness of married women aged 20-40 in Hubei province,and further promote the recovery and improvement of population fertility level in Hubei province.