Psychological factors of Birth

1. Parenthood as the feeling of completeness: People consider parenthood as attaining wholeness. After giving birth, couples think their social responsibility is fulfilled. Unless they give a birth even after some years of marriage, family society, neighbor, relatives, etc. look them in suspicious eyes that they might be infertile. Therefore, couples hurriedly give birth thinking the fulfillment of their role and responsibility.
2. Virility: Many people think giving birth as successful manhood or womanhood. Childless couples are hated in our society. They do not have social prestige. Therefore, married couples realize virility and increase of so-called prestige, the faster and the more births take place. It also lures the couples towards more births.
3. Continuity of family name: Existence of family is questionable if the family does not have male (son) heir of family property. At that situation, the family is meaningless without son. People have strong belief that male birth is necessary for the existence and continuity of family name. The family size becomes large due to too many female births with the hope of bearing male child.
4. Feeling of competition: Most of the people live in rural areas and majority of them are illiterate and they do not have the knowledge of quality of life. As a result, they foolishly compete to bear the child with the people in society including their parents. It shows the competition of people to give more births than others.