Law on “Population Youth Plan”; Family Support Executive Document – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news

Mehr news agency; Community_Fatemeh Group Mirza Jafari: After a long time, a lot of arches Eventually The “Youth and Family Support” plan was approved and has now become a necessary law Execution Has been; The law is supposed to be according to Benefits Where it is located Fertility To make it easier and more pleasant for Iranian families and to be able to play an important role in strengthening the family foundation so that both the country emerges from the umbrella of the population crisis that has been warned of its consequences for several years and the youth force moves towards the goals. The second step of the revolution.

Therefore, a meeting with Hossein Morouti, a member of the Population Studies Committee of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, a member of the working group Commission population Social Expediency Council We had the following:

Many of the existing economic barriers, if removed, are also an issue Fertility Will not be solved; Although the government has a responsibility to provide more support to families who want to have children, cultural issues seem to take precedence over economic issues. What do you think? Reasons Does it affect fertility rate and population aging, and what is the role of economic and cultural issues in causing this crisis?
about The main cause of the population crisis in the country is a duality and each side has a series of supporters. Which of the cultural or economic reasons is more influential on the population issue? Are the issue It is important, however, that the general public sees economic problems as more effective and a major factor.

But there are reasons to show Gives the problem Fertility It does not necessarily correspond to this mentality for example Do parts of the country with higher per capita incomes necessarily have higher population growth? The answer is that not only is this not the case, it is quite the opposite; The same problem prevails in different provinces for example In Mazandaran and Gilan, where people have the highest per capita income, we see the lowest fertility rate, and conversely, in Sistan and Baluchestan province, with the lowest per capita income, we see the highest fertility rate. If we want to consider Tehran, the city of Tehran is a child Bring Has less than the bottom of Tehran; In terms of time, in the 1960s, when there was war and many economic problems, the fertility rate was four times higher than it is today.

So necessarily a better economic situation Fertility It will not increase, and many of the existing economic barriers will not be resolved if they are removed. Although the government has a responsibility to provide more support to families who want to have children, cultural issues seem to take precedence over economic issues.

Economic incentives, given the economic situation in our country, usually do not cover a large part of the child’s expenses, and rather than having an economic function, they have a cultural function and create the perception in the public mind that they have real support.

Can economic incentives go against this false culture and mentality?
You see, when we talk about culture influencing population and fertility, we do not mean just the media. In my opinion an important part of Culture building It can be done by providing economic incentives; Economic incentives, given the economic situation in our country, usually do not cover a large part of the child’s expenses, and rather than having an economic function, they have a cultural function and create the perception in the public mind that they have real support.

Unfortunately, we are in a situation of having more than two children Taboo Has and is anti-value and when That a mother of a child Third Get pregnant, the first protests from within your family and specially His mother hears, “What did you do? Child Third What did you want to do? Pass The anti-value of more than two children has been proven, and we see that sometimes they do anything to maintain this norm, but if the fertility culture is such that three Child And four Child It is desirable, Families Undoubtedly children more They bring and in old age they will have an old cane.

Formerly we are in culture and beliefs Man We believed in the basic principle that “Any annex That tooth Give bread Give ». Unfortunately in half a century Lately Culture building To control the population, this Belief Has faded; But fortunately this Pass yet still So mind There are people so it seems to support the family and Fertility Families and cultural and media work, we can believe this and the religious truth that God Razzaq است را Again Recover.

How much do you think the government is in Culture building Are family and population issues influential?
Government and governance are very effective, but a more important part of the job Responsible People and in my opinion the issue Culture building Yes, that part of the job, effective Is more that spontaneous And be popular. In my opinion the laws that protect the family and Fertility Are laid, are the initial spark to lead people to accompany and support marriage and Fertility To kill.

Unfortunately, our society today is anti-family, anti-mother and anti Fertility Is. It must be said that we destroyed the position of the mother to control the population At the momentIn our minds, any low-value work compared to motherly work is worth more than motherhood; I especially emphasize that if our men Gratitude The troubles of your spouses order They were mothers, mothers probably رمق They were trying to bring the next child!

Our society and laws before the adoption of the population youth law and family protection in the face of family issues and problems, mothers and Fertility How did it work?
Unfortunately, our society today is anti-family, anti-mother and anti Fertility Is. At the moment Mothers have a lot of worries if they want to make a simple purchase with their baby, for example, it is not possible for a mother with a baby and a stroller to be present in most shops. Urban furniture has nothing to do with a mother who wants to enter society with her child. If a mother wants to Office It is not possible for her to be present with her young child, and there is no place in the office where she wants to leave her child. Even if he is an employee of the same office, this possibility is not available in our offices. from this Hand There are many cases and of course many of these problems can be solved by people.

Unfortunately, we have destroyed the position of the mother to control the population At the momentIn our minds, any low-value work compared to motherly work is worth more than motherhood. for example You have seen many cases where women prefer to be office clerks and with Rights Minimal work and a lot of it Rights To spend on travel, but home medicine Do not be a full time mother. This is because they feel valued by working outside the home, but this much They do not feel valued in the matter of raising a human being and motherhood. Why? Because the individual’s spouse, society, structures and environment, none of them respect women as they should as mothers. I especially emphasize that if our men Gratitude The troubles of your spouses order They were mothers, mothers probably رمق They were trying to bring the next child!

One of our problems today is reducing rates Fertility And the population has an effect on increasing the age of marriage and perhaps reducing the young people’s interest in marriage; You discuss the impact of this issue Fertility How do you evaluate?
This Pass It is wrong that young people are not lucky enough to get married, because according to the generality index of marriage, more than 90% of young people and adolescents ایرانی Eventually they get married while in Western countries, for example Near They do not marry a third of the population during their lifetime. Definitive celibacy statistics are currently very low in our country and there is a desire to get married, but unfortunately the age of marriage in the decades Lately Has increased in boys from an average of 23 years to 50 years Lately It has reached 27 years and in girls it has increased from 18 to 24 years. This increase in the age of marriage leads to women having less opportunity to Fertility And have an important part of period Optimal Fertility Lose because the best age Fertility It is 20 years for women, but we see that on average, women get married at the age of 24, and then for a few years. Fertility They do not, and on average, women get their first pregnancy at the age of 27 to 28.

Of course More importantly The issue of marriage age is how many families we have Child they want. Unfortunately, in cities and villages, up and down the city, and in different provinces, families generally do not want more than two children. This means that whether a girl is married at the age of 17 or 27, she usually does not want to have more than 2 children. Of course, under the same circumstances, marriage at a younger age is better, because it is less likely to lead to divorce, and the age gap between parents and children will be shorter, and at some point, more generations will live in society. In my opinion, lowering the age of marriage is more important for the prevention of social harms than it is for the issue of the population, and in this regard, it should be pursued.

Establishment of kindergartens in offices, provision of urban furniture, preservation of maternal dignity, maintenance of job security of mothers and fathers, provision of land and housing facilities and insurance for housewives are some of the items considered in this law, ie a set of support, encouragement and elimination. Obstacles are gathered in this plan

What are the functions of the Family Protection and Youth Act?
This law is widely addressed Culture building And barriers to family formation and Fertility Families have been removed; Establishment of kindergartens in offices, provision of urban furniture, preservation of maternal dignity, maintenance of job security of mothers and fathers, provision of land and housing facilities and insurance for housewives are some of the items that are considered in this law, ie a set of support, encouragement and Obstacles are gathered in this plan. Although there are some minor flaws in the law, it can be said with certainty that this law changes the cultural atmosphere of the society for the benefit of the family. As I said, to this day, our society has been an anti-family, anti-child and anti-mother society; But this law changes the atmosphere and is a good starting point for us to be able to move towards a desirable society with a transcendent lifestyle.

The annual turnover of screening is one thousand and 100 billion tomans, and in order to remove the relevant materials in the law and keep this money in the pockets of men, they claimed that by organizing, optional and standardizing screening, up to ten thousand disabled children will be born annually. ! while Total There are 9,000 cases of legal abortions in our country. Research by Tehran University of Medical Sciences has shown that more than 20,000 healthy fetuses are aborted annually during these screenings. One of the major cache and قوس‌های this law Plan differences Was screening; Why change this design and modify it with a lot of margins روبه Was it?
Unfortunately, there were people who took the issue of screening very seriously and pursued their own economic interests, and we opposed them. Anyway The annual turnover of screening is one thousand and 100 billion tomans, and in order to remove the relevant materials in the law and keep this money in the pockets of men, they claimed that by organizing, optional and standardizing screening, up to ten thousand disabled children will be born annually. ! while Total There are 9,000 cases of legal abortions in our country, of which less than 1,000 are related to the syndrome. Down Is.

Research by Tehran University of Medical Sciences has shown that more than 20,000 healthy fetuses are aborted annually during these screenings. The mother is told it is dangerous and so is the mother Informed Not that it means risky to be This is a possibility Infection Her child has the syndrome Down Less than one percent. Anxious, worried, and unaware, the mother completes the restraining order, prepares the abortion pill, and kills her child. Stay that the complementary steps and Amniocentesis They themselves can lead to a healthy abortion. Eventually, the parliament emerged from a full-blown war with the superficial screening mafia, and the Guardian Council did a great job in this regard and was not affected by the widespread media coverage and lobbying.

As a final point, if there is anything left.

I think this law will be very helpful and will change the various systems in favor of the family for example System Rights And wages, higher education system and education and so on for this reason Despite the shortcomings, we should still be grateful for this plan, because a great deal of work has been done to break this anti-family atmosphere and create a new atmosphere in the country’s cultural space in the area. Fertility create.

Unfortunately, this plan has been suspended in parliament for eight years, and more than seven years since the Supreme Leader’s remarks about Demographic policies are a thing of the past, but not only did we not have a law in this area, but we also had an anti-population law, and this shows that we did not go through the normal process. Fortunately, the Guardian Council and the parliament did well to pass this law. It was a miracle!