Religious beliefs, birth control and fertility behaviour among Muslim married women of Meerut city

Pages: 240-242
Amreen Fatma and Alok Kumar (Department of Sociology, C.C.S. University Campus, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh)

Women’s adverse pregnancy outcomes are the major areas of concern and serious problem in developing countries like India. This study throws light on the faiths and beliefs affecting the number of more children in Islam religion. For this study, data from 100 ever-married women of fertility age 15-49 years, residing in Saray Behleem of Meerut City, District U.P., during the year 2015 were collected. The findings of this study suggests that there are a lot of reasons, which affects the contraception and number of more children in Islam are religious causes and social causes like children are the God’s gifts, children comes with their destiny and old age security were responsible for fertility behavior and not adopting any contraceptive methods by Muslim women due to some religious restrictions.