1. What motivated us to do the study? - Browsing through different social media platforms, we noticed that society strongly opposes it. The one that caught our attention was breaking the stigma of women's sole purpose to have a child. - Many influencers like Angel Dei and many more have shared their perspective and decision with regard to giving birth. So we wanted to give light to the experiences and we wanted to have a deeper understanding of the reasons for their choices. To make it more interesting, we chose to explore the lived experience of women who are already married to gain insight into such a phenomenon. - And also, we have relatives and 2. Why do you think that society or families are pressuring married women to have children/ start a family? - because of the influence of Christianity, the fixed ideology pa a society marriage is only about starting a family through bearing or having children. Because of that, there were heavy expectations that were given to them and makes them pressured as they are the center cause of starting a family. 3. Why did you choose this age range? - We chose women ages 25-45 years old because based on the study by Watson (2018), women are the most fertile and have the best chance of getting pregnant in their 20s and so we wanted to ensure that their decision is completely voluntary and that is based on their desire to be childfree and not on their physical abilities or limitations to reproduce. 4. How do they define family, how do they define marriage, and what motivates them to get married? - Hindi po siya kasama sa scope namin because ang focus lang po ng study namin is kung ano perception nila on having a child, the reason behind their decision on being childfree, and kung ano yung mga struggles na-encounter nila. (this research is going to answer this question because this study will help us understand them better ) 5. the enhancement of female career opportunities and boosting of contraception access make it possible to be voluntarily childless. - In this generation, there are more career-oriented women because for so long, men have been given the title of breadwinner, and women are given the stereotypes of being a housewife and not having a job, which belittles them and their capabilities, so now they are career-oriented because they want to prove not just themselves but others that they are more than that. 6. - Having a child means, they have to stay at home. - Contraceptives are used to prevent pregnancies. Why may Mothers role na theme, eh these women choose not to be mothers - We came up with the main theme “Mother’s role” based on our research question “What are the perceptions of Filipino married women about having a child?” - Mothers role was the best term we could think of to summarize the whole idea to the questions regarding their perspective on being a mom, what they believe the duties are of a mother, and the interaction between a mother and a child, so overall it basically falls under the what they believe a mother should be hence “Mothers role” 7. the root cause of its taboo - Because of the country’s history of having conservative culture and its uncertain standard or old standard about women 8. Hayford argues that education can be linked to a desire to be child-free. - There are usually wider situations na pwede natinng maiapply dito kasi it requires deeper discussions regarding this question about the link of education and being childfree pero giving an example po, based on statistic research that women who receive better education and has higher education qualities are often to become more goal oriented in life in regards to building their career.
