THE ISLAMIC JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE FAMILY
Year:2019 | Volume:6 | Issue:13|Papers Count:6

The present study was conducted with the aim of reviewing and analyzing the Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's opinions on the population growth and Islamic Republic of Iran's favorable policy-making. This study applied an analytical-exploratory methodology and a theoretical framework obtained from the prophetic Hadiths. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli agrees with the necessity of population growth; emphasizes the importance of its educational, hereafter, and divine aspects; and presents an idea named "Kawthar generation". The Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's important opinions are as follows: having a divine and emotional approach to family; defining a human as a living creature who thinks sacredly, not as a rational animal; linking the humanity of a human to his/her spirit, not to his/her body; paying attention to both family and society needs and meeting them considering the jurisprudential, religious, cultural, economic, ethical, managerial, philosophical, Quranic, and narrative issues. In this viewpoint, paying attention to the economic situation of people and implementing the resistive economy policies are important for the Kawthar generation to be flourished, and providing its economic arrangements by the government is a sufficient obligation.

This research was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effect of religiosity, social support, and education on the tendency towards the married women's pregnancy in the city of Tehran. The pregnancy and the tendency towards it is a multidimensional variable that has been studied in various sciences and this research has studied it in the field of sociology. The data were gathered from 384 married women ranging in age from 20 to 44 in the city of Tehran who were selected by the stratified sampling. The conflict tactics scale and parenting stress index were used for data-gathering and the methods of Spearman's correlation coefficient, regression, and path analysis were applied for data-analyzing. The results showed that there is statistically a significant relationship between the independent variables of religiosity, social support, and education and the dependent variable of the tendency towards pregnancy. In addition, the regression analysis demonstrated that the variables of religiosity and education explain the variances in the tendency towards pregnancy. The path analysis also showed that religiosity, directly, social support, indirectly, and education, both directly and indirectly, influence the tendency towards pregnancy.

By emerging the advanced fertility and infertility technologies, many parents have become closer to reaching their long-term dream, which is the choice of their children sex before birth. There are supporters of and opponents against using these advanced technologies. Although the choice of sex for medical reasons (to prevent the transmission of disease to the next generation) has widely been accepted, this choice for non-medical reasons (parental sex preferences) has been a controversial issue in the ethical and public polices of most countries. The present study was a documentary research and applied both Latin and Persian papers and texts related to the supporters of and opponents against choosing the fetus sex (published during 1996-2017). The results demonstrated that there is a necessity for revising and formulating the laws about the issue of choosing the fetus sex before the fertility for non-medical reasons. Especially, this issue is acceptable if a family has both girls and boys and wants to make a balance; but the control of executive and demographic policy-maker organizations is necessary as well as providing medical consulting services to applicant families.

Nowadays, the international law pays special attention to the mothers' right due to the non-binding resolutions of United Nations General Assembly. The concept and examples of this right, in the form of women's and mothers' rights, have been emphasized much more accurately in Islam, particularly, in the thoughts of Imam Sajad. This research explains the mothers' right with the help of Islam and international law. According to the Hohfeld's classification, from the viewpoint of international law, the most mothers' right is liberty; but from the Islamic view, it is very greater and it is the right to claim. In terms of time span, the international law limits the mothers' right to the pregnancy period and its complications and recognizes the right to the upbringing of the children as a parents' right, of course, with some constraints; but from the Islamic perspective, especially in the thoughts of Imam Sajad, not only is the mothers' right not limited to the pregnancy period, but it also continues till their death and the government, husband, international law, resolutions of United Nations General Assembly, and children should observe this right. Therefore, in Islam, the mothers' right is much more complete and progressive than what is in the international law and it is necessity for the international law to take advantage of Islamic teachings.

This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on the conflict resolution styles and parenting stress among the married women in the city of Yazd and it used a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group. The population was all the married women referring to the counseling and family clinics and centers in the city of Yazd and 30 women (test and control groups of 15) were selected by the convenience sampling. The research tools were the Straus's conflict tactics scale and parenting stress index. The data were analyzed by the Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA). The findings showed that the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) decreases the level of parenting stress among the participants. In addition, the findings demonstrated that ACT influences the conflict resolution process and its subscales including the verbal, reduction of neglect level, and increment of self-sacrifice level subscales.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of the religion-based communication skill education on the self-esteem and mental health among the women heading household and the research applied a quasi-experimental method and pretest-posttest design with a control group. The population included all the women heading household in the city of Parand and 60 women were selected by the multistage sampling and they were placed into the two test groups and one control group. Before and after the experimental intervention of the religion-based communication skills, the data were collected by the Goldberg's general health questionnaire and the Coopersmith's self-esteem inventory. By SPSS-10 software, the analysis of covariance demonstrated that there is a meaningful difference between the self-esteem (P≤ 0. 001, F=49. 35) and the mental health (P≤ 0. 001, F=83. 72) in the test and control groups. It is suggested to use this difference, which shows the positive effect of the religion-based communication skill education on the improvement of self-esteem and mental health among the women heading household, in the preventive and therapeutic approaches to improving the mental health of these women.