The willingness of women of childbearing age to have a second child in lanzhou under the “universal two-child policy”

Abstract

In order to understand the two-child fertility intention of women of childbearing age in lanzhou city under the comprehensive two-child policy and explore its influencing factors. Women of childbearing age in lanzhou city has been training a child (aged 18 to 49) as the research object, using chi-square analysis method, the results show that: (1) the ideal number of the women of childbearing age in lanzhou is1.87 children on average, those with a different age, household register, marital status, type of married life, family, one child age, children primary caregivers of women of childbearing age ,their ideal number of children have statistically significant difference were observed. (2) women of childbearing age in lanzhou are highly satisfied with the number of children they have. (3) under the policy of “universal two-child policy”, women of childbearing age in lanzhou have a relatively high willingness to have a second child. (4) common willingness of couples, loneliness of having one child and national policy support are the main reasons for women of childbearing age to have two children; The main reasons why women of childbearing age do not want to have a second child are that the children are not taken care of, the family economic pressure is too big, the idea of eugenics and eugenics, the work pressure is big.