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KMID : 0613620210410020123
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Health Social Welfare Review
2021 Volume.41 No. 2 p.123 ~ p.140
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The Relationship Between Women’s Family Values and Their Intention to Get Married and Have Children
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Lim Byung-In
Seo Hye-Rim
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Abstract
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We examined if the values women have of marriage, childbirth, and gender role affect their intention to marry and to have children. For our analysis, we used logistic regression estimation and multiple regression on data from the ??National Survey on Fertility and Family Health and Welfare?? of 2015 and 2018. Empirical findings are as follows: first, both unmarried women’s intention to marry and married women’s intention to have an additional childbirth has declined to a statistically significant extent since 2015. Second, in both unmarried women and married women without children, being in employment positively affected the intention both to marry and to have a child. Among married women with children, being in employment did not affect the intention to have another child. Having a home of one’s own was associated with increased intention to have a child. Third, the more positive unmarried women were about family values in the traditional sense, the higher their intention to get married. Married women, however, appeared to have inconsistent and mixed values affecting their intention to give birth. Fourth, an increasing proportion of unmarried or married women were found to think that promoting marriage and childbirth should require the increased support from the government.
In conclusion, effective policies for job security are needed for both unmarried women and married women without children. For married women with children, there is a need for strengthening on-going housing policies.
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KEYWORD
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Intention to marry, Intention to give birth, Family Values, Logistic Regression
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